{"id":3851,"date":"2026-08-14T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:10:39","slug":"a-sculpture-by-a-monuments-man-is-dedicated-at-30th-street-station-on-this-week-in-philly-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3851","title":{"rendered":"A sculpture by a \u2018Monuments Man\u2019 is dedicated at 30th Street Station on this week in Philly history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even the artists went to war.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Some of Philadelphia\u2019s soldiers and civilians \u2014 like local legend Walker Kirtland Hancock \u2014 headed for World War II\u2019s battlefields to save art. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3849\">\ud83c\udfed Steam workers may strike | Morning Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Hancock was part of the \u201cMonuments Men,\u201d about 345 men and women who were sent overseas to try to pry Europe\u2019s cultural treasures from the grip of the Gestapo.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI was really prepared,\u201d Hancock told the Daily News in 1991. \u201cI knew where I was going and what I was looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Hancock, who would become one of the United States\u2019 most distinguished sculptors, attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and taught there from 1929 to 1967.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He enlisted in the Army in his mid-40s during the war and was trained as a medic, but later transferred to the Army\u2019s Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives outfit. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The unit\u2019s monumental task: reclaim art the Germans had stolen and then hidden throughout the countryside in caves, on trains, in castles, and in hospitals. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Some of Hancock\u2019s most significant discoveries were found 1,800 feet deep in a salt mine in Bernterode, Germany.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The first painting he rescued was a work by Jean-Antoine Watteau, <i>Embarkation for Cythera<\/i>, what he described as \u201cone of the greatest paintings\u201d the artist ever completed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3847\">Five fighters to know before UFC 330 at Xfinity Mobile Arena, from an Irish Eagles fan to a \u2018jiujitsu girl\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe surprise was so enormous to see a very famous old friend like that standing on the ground without any frame on it,\u201d he told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The mine was also filled with other treasures: the great seal of Prussia; an emperor\u2019s scepter; the art collection of Frederick the Great, which was considered to be the best collection of French paintings in the world; and palatial libraries.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Their efforts to reclaim precious pieces of human achievement were documented in a 2009 best-selling book. In 2014, their tale was given the \u201cbased on a true story\u201d treatment and made into a star-studded motion picture dubbed <i>The Monuments Men, <\/i>featuring names like George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, and John Goodman.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Today, Hancock\u2019s public works can be found all over the country, and locally, his most notable work sits at the east end of 30th Street Station.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The 39-foot-tall, 10\u00bd-ton <i>Statue to War Dead<\/i> depicts an angel holding a dying soldier. It commemorates in bronze the 1,307 employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad who died during World War II. Gen. Omar N. Bradley was on hand to help dedicate the artwork on Aug. 10, 1952.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Hancock died in 1998 at age 97 but his sculpture remains the station\u2019s monumental centerpiece.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3845\">Two decades ago, Rachael DeCecco reached the peak of women\u2019s lacrosse. 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