Residing inside Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center is an Elephant. Created by Karel Appel, Elephant is a formerly outdoor sculpture brought indoors. The sculpture is originally from
The Phillips Collection but was moved to the University of Maryland on a long-term loan. The sculpture was made in 1950 and cast in 1989. Karel Appel was a Dutch artist born in 1921. Appel is known as being one of the founding members of the CoBrA avant-garde art movement.