Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     Return to results > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Moore, Henry,     Unknown (West Berlin, Germany),     Abstract -- Geometric     Allegory -- Element     Allegory -- Other     Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Chicago     Sculpture

Nuclear Energy, (sculpture). Artist:  Moore, Henry, 1898-1986, sculptor. Unknown (West Berlin, Germany), founder. Title:  Nuclear Energy, (sculpture). Dates:  1967. Dedicated December 2, 1967. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. H. 14 ft. Diam. 8 ft.; Base: approx. H. 1 1/2 ft. Diam. 10 ft. Description:  Abstract organic form which suggests a protective helmet, a human skull, and a mushroom-shaped cloud. Subject:  Abstract -- Geometric Allegory -- Element -- Energy Allegory -- Other -- Physics Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Chicago Sculpture Owner:  Administered by University of Chicago, Office of Physical Planning and Construction, 5555 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637 Located University of Chicago, South Ellis Avenue between 56th & 57th Streets, Chicago, Illinois 60637 Remarks:  Purchased from Moore with funds from the B. F. Ferguson Monument Fund. The sculpture marks the spot where the Manhattan Project team devised the first nuclear reactor under the now demolished stands of the Univ. of Chicago's football stadium. The work commemorates the achievement of the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction on December 2, 1942. References:  Bach, Ira J., and Mary Lackritz Gray, "A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture," Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, pg. 269-270. Riedy, James, "Chicago Sculpture," Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1981, pg. 187. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Illinois, Chicago survey, 1992. Illustration:  Image on file. Bach, Ira J., and Mary Lackritz Gray, "A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture," Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, pg. 269. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 87580104   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 87580104 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact