Sunday Morning Sculpture to be Featured in Retrospective

On Tuesday, March 18, the Seward Johnson sculpture, Sunday Morning, which sits outside the Cherry Hill Public Library’s front doors, will be removed and temporarily  loaned to Grounds For Sculpture for a career retrospective exhibition to honor internationally renowned American sculptor Seward Johnson.

The retrospective exhibition will be unveiled at the 42-acre Grounds For Sculpture art park in Hamilton on May 4, 2014. It will be the largest exhibition in the park’s history. The exhibit of more than 150 works will be on display through Sept. 21, 2014.

The Sculpture Foundation, Inc. contacted the Cherry Hill Public Library about loaning Sunday Morning for the exhibition.

The sculpture will be transported, cleaned and refurbished for use at Grounds For Sculpture, at no cost to the library.

After the exhibition, Sunday Morning will be reinstalled at its original location at the Cherry Hill Public Library.

Sunday Morning was first created in 1985 and there have been two castings. Sunday Morning I was sold in 1989 to an owner in Miami Beach, Florida. Sunday Morning II was purchased by the Friends of the Cherry Hill Public Library in 2007 after a year-long community campaign.

Seward Johnson, 84, whose lifelike bronze and monumental figures are familiar sights throughout the US, Europe and Asia, is often hailed in the press as “America’s most popular sculptor.” Johnson is admired for his uncanny ability to create with superb realism and deft humor. 

The sculptor’s memorable works of art include the collection of remarkably realistic “man on the street” sculptures from his Celebrating the Familiar series, which draw our attention to the humanity in the smallest details of ordinary life: a nap on a park bench, playing Frisbee with your dog, or gazing up at the clouds.