''Birth of the Muses'' is a 1944–1950

bronze sculpture Bronze is the most popular metal for Casting (metalworking), cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as w ...

Jacques Lipchitz Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, domi ...

, installed on the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

(MIT) campus, in

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, United States. The piece ''Birth of the Muses'' "grew out of a series of small sketches from 1944 treating the theme of Greek mythological

Pegasus Pegasus (; ) is a winged horse in Greek mythology, usually depicted as a white stallion. He was sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa. Pegasus was the brother of Chrysaor, both born from Medusa's blood w ...

. According to myth, this winged horse alighted on Mt. Olympus, where its four hooves touched the ground, four springs of water emerged in which the muses were born".

Syracuse University

Another copy of the sculpture hangs at the Newhouse 1 building of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on

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campus. It was donated in 1964 by Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.

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