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Philadelphia Still Life Museum

From the Permanent Collection

Curbside Assembly, Front Stoop — East Passyunk

Wood, blue tarp, wrought-iron fence, brick facade

License & Inspections, est. 2025

123 days on view


Photographic documentation of the work as submitted to the city's 311 record.
As submitted to the city’s 311 record.

Curatorial note

Seen from the curb, a blue tarpaulin covers a heap of dimensional lumber occupying the front yard of a brick rowhouse in East Passyunk. Since acquisition in December 2025, the work has functioned as a material register of ongoing maintenance, transforming a routine curbside accumulation into a longitudinal study of streetscape endurance. The wooden stack behind the ornamental fence anchors the composition to the street’s everyday material life and to the neighborhood’s front-yard idiom.

Catalogue metadata

Accession no.
19229309
Location
///parks.branch.rental
Address
1631 S BROAD ST
Region
East Passyunk
Acquired
December 2025
Status
On permanent display

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