Stone Field Sculpture, (sculpture).

Stone Field Sculpture, (sculpture).

Andre, Carl, 1935-2024, sculptor.

Stone Field Sculpture, (sculpture).

Stonefield Sculpture (sculpture).

Copyrighted 1977. Installed Aug. 22, 1977.

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Sandstone, brownstone, granite, schist, gneiss, basalt, and serpentine boulders.

Approx. 4 x 53 x 290 ft.

Thirty-six boulders of different sizes arranged in eight parallel rows, each containing one to eleven rocks, forming a triangle. The largest boulder is placed at the apex of the triangle; the boulders progressively diminish in size.

Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Hartford

Administered by City of Hartford, Parks and Recreation Department, 550 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06106

Located Corner of Main & Gold Streets, Hartford, Connecticut 06103

Funded with a National Endowment for the Arts, Art in Public Places grant of $50,000 given in 1976 to the City of Hartford. Additional funding was provided by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The sculpture cost $100,000. According to the artist, the sculpture represents New England's geological history and its juxtaposition next to the Center Church graveyard is intended to underscore the relationship of human time and geological time.

Granite monument with bronze marker located just beyond apex of the triangle reads: STONEFIELD SCULPTURE/(copyright symbol) Carl Andre 1977/A Gift To The City Of Hartford/Hartford Foundation for Public Giving/The National Endowment for the Arts.

IAS files contain copies of articles from the Hartford Courant, Aug. 25, 1977 and Nov. 4, 1977, which describe the controversy surrounding the sculpture. For further reading see: Arts Magazine, Dec. 1977, pg. 5; Art Forum, March 1978, pg. 29-33, and exhibition catalog: "Hartford's Outdoor Sculpture," The Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, April 1981, pg. 6.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.

Heritage Preservation SOS! survey of NEA Art in Public Places funded sculpture, 2002.

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.

Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

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