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    		• Byars, Chris,
     
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    		• Taylor, Ralph,
     
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    		• Abstract -- Geometric
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Colorado -- Canon City
     
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    		• Kinetic
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Transitions, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Byars, Chris, 1939- , sculptor.
    Taylor, Ralph, assistant.
    Title: 
    Transitions, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Commissioned Aug. 1, 1985. Copyrighted 1987. Installed ca. June 1987.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: steel plate, enamel painted; Base: brick and quartz.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 30 x 6 x 6 ft.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    Three vertical forms, painted off-white, pivot individually on their axis in an triangular arrangement. The sculpture is mounted on a short, brick stepped base surrounded by crushed quartz. The sculpture is meant to be lit at night in varied hues.
    Subject: 
    Abstract -- Geometric
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Colorado -- Canon City
    Kinetic
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by State of Colorado, Council on the Arts & Humanities, 770 Pennsylvania Street, Denver, Colorado 80203
    Located Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility, West Highway 50, Box 1010, Canon City, South of main pedestrian entrance, Colorado 81212
    Remarks: 
    Commissioned by the State Art in Public Places Program of the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, funded by One Percent for Works of Art in Public Places. The sculpture cost $40,000, and was part of a renovation project for Cellhouses 1 and 7 of the Correctional Facility. Ralph Taylor assisted in the fabrication of the sculpture. After the sculpture was installed, the guards found the lights at night were distracting; as a result, lights are turned on only on holidays.
    IAS files also contain April 1, 1985 correspondence from the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities; contract for design of the sculpture dated April 2, 1985; contract for commissioning of sculpture dated Aug. 1, 1985; artist's budget and design statement; and newspaper articles from Cannon City Daily Record, July 10, 1985, pg. 1; and The Mountain Mail (Salida, CO), June 5, 1987, pg. 1.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Colorado survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    The Mountain Mail (Salida, CO), June 5, 1987, pg. 1.
    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 CO000032
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