Father Time - San Marino, CA
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N 34° 07.640 W 118° 06.807
11S E 397326 N 3776834
This sculpture is on the grounds of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA.
Waymark Code: WMPXTM
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/06/2015
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This sculpture depicts Father Time as an older man with a scythe at his side and holding an hourglass. He also has wings. There is no sign at the site to indicate the title, artist or date.
Wikipedia (
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"Father Time is the anthropomorphized depiction of time.
Description
Father Time is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, dressed in a robe and carrying a scythe and an hourglass or other timekeeping device (which represents time's constant one-way movement, and more generally and abstractly, entropy). This image derives from several sources, including the Grim Reaper and Chronos, the Greek Titan of human time, reaping and calendars, or the Lord of Time.
Around New Year's Eve many editorial cartoons use the convenient trope[1] of Father Time as the personification of the previous year (or "the Old Year") who typically "hands over" the duties of time to the equally allegorical Baby New Year (or "the New Year") or who otherwise characterizes the preceding year."