| Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison | |
| Italic Title: | no |
| Artist: | Penelope Jencks |
| Medium: | Bronze sculpture |
| Subject: | Samuel Eliot Morison |
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| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
A statue of military historian Samuel Eliot Morison by Penelope Jencks is installed along Boston's Commonwealth Avenue Mall, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
The 1982 bronze sculpture, set atop a sculpted granite boulder, depicts Morison holding binoculars. Below his feet, embedded in the boulder, are bronze casts of crabs, shells, and starfish. Etched into a smaller rock beside the boulder is inscribed his counsel to young writers: ”Dream dreams, then write them aye, but live them first.”
The work was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993.[1]