The iconic statue located on Andover's Great Lawn was designed and cast in Paris by American artist Paul Manship and presented to the Academy in 1928 by PA alum and philanthropist Thomas Cochran. It is a stylized sundial in the form of metal hoops representing the Equator, Ecliptic Tropics, and Arctic and Antarctic circles. In the center of the hoops sit a man and woman gently embracing a young child.