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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Keating, Andrew,     Markovitz, Sherry,     Simpson, Buster,     Gehrke, Emil,     Gehrke, Veva,     Rutherford, David,     Hobbs, Richard,     Hobbs/Fukui,     Undetermined     Outdoor Sculpture -- Washington -- Seattle     Sculpture

Viewland / Hoffman Substation, (sculpture). Artist:  Keating, Andrew, 1948- , sculptor. Markovitz, Sherry, 1947- , sculptor. Simpson, Buster, 1942- , sculptor. Gehrke, Emil, 1884-1979, sculptor. Gehrke, Veva, 1902-1980, sculptor. Rutherford, David, architect. Hobbs, Richard, architect. Hobbs/Fukui, architectural firm. Title:  Viewland / Hoffman Substation, (sculpture). Dates:  1977-1979. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Painted steel, aluminum, found objects including hubcaps, hardhats, dust pans and washing-machine parts. Inscription:  (On plaque:) Viewland-Hoffman Receiving Substation/EUGENE R./HOFFMAN/1887-1976/Eugene R. Hoffman was Superintendent/of the City of Seattle Department of/Lighting from 1939-1953. During his/long and distinguished career as a/public servant he was an engineer for/the Washington State Highway Depart-/ment, Superintendent of Parks for the/City of Seattle, and state engineer for/the federal Public Works Administration. (Other plaques are installed throughout the substation) Description:  Installation in an electrical substation including mural of triangular pieces painted in various colours mounted on interior concrete wall, color-coded electrical equipment, brightly painted signage, a chair, and an enclosed compound of 27 whirligigs made from found objects. Subject:  Undetermined Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Washington -- Seattle Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Seattle, Seattle Arts Commission, 312 1st Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109 Located Viewland/Hoffman Electrical Substation, North 105th & Fremont Avenue North, Seattle, Washington Remarks:  Funding for the installation was provided by Seattle City Light Percent for Art. The installation was designed by a project design team including artists Keating, Markovitz and Simpson and architects Hobbs and Rutherford from Hobbs/Fukui architectural firm. The mural was created by Keating. The chair was created by Simpson. The whirligigs in the compound were created by Emil and Veva Gehrke. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Washington survey, 1995. Seattle Arts Commission, "A Fieldguide to Seattle's Public Art," pg. 11-19, 67, 152-153. Rupp, James, "Art in Seattle's Public Places", Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992, pg. 242-243. Illustration:  Image on file. Seattle Arts Commission, "A Fieldguide to Seattle's Public Art,"pg. 14, 152-153. 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 WA000335   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture WA000335 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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