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The Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology, (sculpture). Artist:  Brink, Guido Peter, 1913- , sculptor. Super Steel Products, Inc., fabricator. Title:  The Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology, (sculpture). Dates:  1992. Dedicated Oct. 23, 1992. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: painted (baked enamel) hot-rolled plate steel; Base: concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 12 x 12 x 8 ft.; Base: approx. 46 x 47 1/2 x 59 in. Inscription:  "The Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology" Guido Brink (copyright symbol 1992)/Commissioned Under the Wisconsin Arts Board Percent for Art Program signed Description:  Stabile with three prongs (legs) which meet at the center and branch off into four symbolic heads extended on outreaching arms. A three bladed propeller of polished stainless steel is in the center and is kinetic. Abstracted humanoid forms have geometric cut shapes around perimeter and geometric-shaped negative spaces. Head forms have three disks and one arrow mounted on stainless steel rods. Sculpture is red, smooth and highly polished. Subject:  Abstract -- Geometric Figure group Figure -- Head Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Kinetic Stabile Sculpture Owner:  Administered by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Campus Facilities Planning, Englemann Hall, 280; P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 Located University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 3209 North Maryland Avenue, Lapham Hall, southwest grounds, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 Remarks:  The sculpture was funded through the Percent for Art program of the Wisconsin Arts Board, for the new addition to Lapham Hall. IAS files contain related articles from the Milwaukee Sentinel, Oct. 15, 1992; Aug. 28. 1992, the Milwaukee Journal, July 7, 1991, and The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Post, Oct. 29, 1992, pg. 3. IAS files also contain copy of University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Report, Oct. 2, 1992. For further reading see: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 9, 2002. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Wisconsin, Milwaukee survey, 1993. Palmer, Virginia, 1992. Wisconsin Arts Board, Percent for Art Program, 2003. Illustration:  Image on file. The Milwaukee Sentinel, Oct. 15, 1992. 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 WI000370   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture WI000370 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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