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Justice by Donald De Lue
Photo CreditCarol M. Highsmith Photography
Justice
Photo CreditCarol M. Highsmith Photography

Justice

Artist
Year1941
Classification sculpture
Medium granite
Dimensions9'x 16' x 10"
Credits Commissioned through the Section of Fine Arts, 1934 - 1943
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location
  • This is one of six panels created under the Section of Fine Arts, Federal Works Agency for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Post Office and Court House.




    Seated figure with left hand uplifted, holding a lamp.  Eagle behind figure, which stands wings outstretched on a pedestal.  Beneath pedestal are three stars.  Right arm of figure outstretched, palm upward.




    The artist is noted as describing his sculpture as "a powerful female figure gazing before her with outstretched arms as a gesture of offering justice to all.  I have presented her as a symbol rather than a woman.  A great dispassionate force whose power and vision could penetrate all things.  In her left hand she has lifted the lamp from the altar of Justice.  On the Altar by the outstretched hand are the symbols of the wheat and the thorn, --'as Ye sow, so shall Ye reap'."




    Donal De Lue of New York City received this commission as a result of Honorable Mention award received in a Section of Fine Arts competition.