Putnam Collection of Sculpture

The Putnam Collection of Sculpture is a memorial to John B. Putnam, Jr. '45, Lieutenant U.S.A., who was killed in World War II. It consists of the works of twenty major twentieth-century sculptors purchased in 1969 and 1970 through a fund given by an anonymous donor.

The sculptors represented in the Collection, their works, and the location of these works follow:

PUTNAM COLLECTION OF SCULPTURE

Reg Butler, The Bride, in Hamilton Court.

Alexander Calder, Five Disks: One Empty, on the plaza between Fine and Jadwin Halls.

Jacob Epstein, Albert Einstein, in the Fine Hall Library.

Naum Gabo, Spheric Theme, between 1879 Hall and Architecture Building.

Michael Hall, Mastodon VI, in front of MacMillan Building.

Gaston Lachaise, Floating Figure, in the Compton Quadrangle, Graduate College.

Jacques Lipchitz, Song of the Vowels, between Firestone Library and the University Chapel.

Clement Meadmore, Upstart II, at entrance to Engineering Quadrangle.

Henry Moore, Oval with Points, between West College and Stanhope Hall.

Masayuki Nagare, Stone Riddle, in the courtyard of Engineering Quadrangle.

Louise Nevelson, Atmosphere and Environment X, at the Nassau Street entrance to the Campus near Firestone Library.

Isamu Noguchi, White Sun, in the lobby of Firestone Library.

Eduardo Paolozzi, Marok-Marok-Miosa, in the lobby of the Architecture Building.

Antoine Pevsner, Construction in the 3rd and 4th Dimension, in the courtyard of Jadwin Hall.

Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman, in front of The Art Museum.

Arnaldo Pomodoro, Sfero, in the Lourie-Love dormitory quadrangle.

George Rickey, Two Planes Vertical Horizontal II, between East Pyne and Murray-Dodge.

David Smith, Cubi XIII, near Spelman Hall.

Tony Smith, Moses, on the front lawn of Prospect.

Kenneth Snelson, Northwood II, in Compton Quadrangle, Graduate College.

A RECAPITULATION, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY LOCATION, FOLLOWS:

Architecture Building lobby: Paolozzi

Architecture Building-Seventy-Nine Hall: Gabo

Art Museum front lawn: Picasso

Engineering Quadrangle: Meadmore, Nagare, Snelson

Fine Hall, library: Epstein

Fine-Jadwin plaza: Calder

Firestone plaza: Lipchitz

Firestone Library lobby: Noguchi

Firestone Library near Nassau Street: Nevelson

Graduate College, Compton Court: Lachaise

Hamilton Court: Butler

Jadwin Hall courtyard: Pevsner

Lourie-Love dormitory quadrangle: Pomodoro

MacMillan Building: Hall

Murray-Dodge: Rickey

Prospect lawn: Tony Smith

Spelman Hall: David Smith

West College-Stanhope Hall: Moore

These sculptures were selected by a committee of alumni who were directors or former directors of art museums: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. '21 (Museum of Modern Art), Thomas P. F. Hoving '53 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), P. Joseph Kelleher Ph.D. '47 (The Art Museum, Princeton University), William M. Milliken '11 (Cleveland Museum of Art). John B. Putnam, Jr. '45, who came to Princeton from Cleveland, Ohio, left college at the end of his sophomore year to enlist in the Army Air Corps. He made a brilliant record as a squadron flight leader with the Eighth Fighter Command in England, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with six Oak Leaf Clusters. He was killed in a crash in England shortly after D Day in 1944.

Source: Leitch p. 397 ff