Hear the Manager of Campus Collections (PP494)
Hear the Manager of Campus Collections (PP494)
In September 1969, as Princeton’s first female undergraduates arrived on campus, these two larger-than-life Bengal tigers, symbolically male and female, were installed here on Adams Mall. Hugh Trumbell Adams, a member of the Class of 1935, had given funds to landscape the area between Whig and Clio Halls, and the artist Bruce Moore was commissioned to design the bronze tigers. Prior to casting the sculptures, Moore made full-scale paper mock-ups of the tigers, which he brought to campus in order to determine the proportions needed for the finished work. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Moore studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in 1929 received a Guggenheim Fellowship for study in Paris, followed by another fellowship as a guest sculptor at the American Academy in Rome. While he was a respected portrait painter, Moore is best known for his sculptures of animals and as a designer for Steuben Glass.
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