| The Rush of Green | |
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 The Rush of Green in 2017 | |
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| Artist | SirJacob Epstein |
| Year | 1957–1959 |
| Type | Sculptural group |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Location | Junction of Edinburgh Gate and South Carriage Drive,Knightsbridge,LondonSW1X |
| Coordinates | 51°30′09″N0°09′44″W / 51.502412°N 0.162360°W /51.502412; -0.162360 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | The Pan Statue |
| Designated | 16 January 2016 |
| Reference no. | 1431163[1] |
The Rush of Green, also known asPan orThe Bowater House Group, was the last sculpture completed byJacob Epstein before his death at his home inHyde Park Gate on 19 August 1959. The sculpture group includes a long-limbed family – father, mother, son and dog – rushing towardsHyde Park, encouraged by the Greek godPan playing hispipes. It was cast in bronze posthumously and installed in 1961 on a plinth separating the carriageways of Edinburgh Gate beneathBowater House. The sculpture was removed when Bowater House was demolished in 2006 and reinstalled near the building which replaced it,One Hyde Park, in 2010. The sculpture was grantedGrade II listed status in January 2016, giving it legal protection against unauthorised alteration or removal.
The sculpture was commissioned byHarold Samuel in November 1957. He was the chairman of theLand Securities Investment Trust, and intended the statue to be sited beside the company's new office development at Bowater House, on the southern edge of Hyde Park. It was cast in bronze byMorris Singer and installed in April 1961 in the middle of Edinburgh Gate, a road that ran fromKnightsbridge underneath the newly built Bowater House to South Carriage Drive. A maquette of the sculpture was exhibited in the foyer of the building.
The sculpture was removed when Bowater House was demolished in 2006 to be replaced byOne Hyde Park and reinstalled in 2010 at the entrance to the relocated Edinburgh Gate, some distance to the west, still beside South Carriage Road, accompanied by new 15 metres (49 ft) bronze gates designed byWendy Ramshaw.
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