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Nine Spaces, Nine Trees, (sculpture). Artist:  Irwin, Robert, 1928- , sculptor. Title:  Nine Spaces, Nine Trees, (sculpture). Dates:  1983. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Chain link fence, sky-blue nylon, plum trees, concrete, sedum. Dimensions:  Approx. 10 x 66 x 66 ft. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  Nine square room-like sections defined by semi-transparent walls. Light blue fencing material surrounds the entire piece and the individual sections. Each section has at least one entrance, and at its center, an actual dark red plum tree in a square concrete planter. The edges of the planters serve as benches. Subject:  Abstract -- Geometric Landscape -- Tree Object Type:  Bench Outdoor Sculpture -- Washington -- Seattle Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Seattle, Seattle Arts Commission, 312 1st Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109 Located Public Safety Building, 4th Avenue & Cherry Street, Seattle, Washington Remarks:  Funded with a National Endowment for the Arts, Art in Public Places grant of $50,000 given in 1980 to the Seattle Arts Commission. Additional funding was provided by One Percent for Art funds from the Department of Administrative Services and Fentron Building Products & Fabrication Specialties. IAS files contain copies from the Seattle Arts Commission's, "A Field Guide to Seattle's Public Art," Seattle: Seattle Arts Commission, 1991, pg. 6-7, 88-89; copies from James M. Rupp's "Art in Seattle's Public Places: An Illustrated Guide," Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992, pg. 56-57; and related material. For related publications see: Seattle Arts (July 1983); and Seattle Arts Commission, "A Directory of Seattle's Public Art," Seattle, WA, 1992. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Washington survey, 1995. Albright College, Freedman Gallery, 1985, "Sites and Solutions: Recent Public Art," pg. 6, 22. Heritage Preservation SOS! survey of NEA Art in Public Places funded sculpture, 2002. Irwin, Robert, "Being and Circumstance: Notes Toward a Conditional Art," San Francisco, CA: The Lapis Press, Inc., 1985, pg. 67-73. Illustration:  Image on file. "Sites and Solutions: Recent Public Art," Albright College, Freedman Gallery, 1985, pg. 23. Irwin, Robert, "Being and Circumstance: Notes Toward a Conditional Art," San Francisco, CA: The Lapis Press, Inc., 1985, pg. 67-73. 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 87760014   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 87760014 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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