Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
Return to results
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Newman, Kirk,
Fine Arts Sculpture Centre,
Abstract
Animal -- Bird
Outdoor Sculpture -- Michigan -- St. Joseph
Sculpture
Gulwave, (
sculpture
).
Artist:
Newman, Kirk, 1926- , sculptor.
Fine
Arts
Sculpture
Centre,
founder
.
Title:
Gulwave, (
sculpture
).
Dates:
1983. Dedicated June 21, 1983.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture
: bronze; Base: copper over cement block.
Dimensions:
Sculpture
: approx. H. 5 ft. W. 8 ft. D. 30 in.; Base: approx. 28 x 30 x 30 in.
Inscription:
(On plaque, front of base:) GULWAVE/GIFT OF/OLGA KRASL/SCULPTOR/KIRK NEWMAN/1983 unsigned
Description:
When viewed from above this curving abstract
sculpture
forms the outline of a seagull. The surface is scored with vertical lines to indicate dune grass. The
sculpture
rests on a small square base.
Subject:
Abstract
Animal -- Bird -- Gull
Object Type:
Outdoor
Sculpture
-- Michigan -- St. Joseph
Sculpture
Owner:
Krasl Art
Center
, 707 Lake Boulevard, Front lawn, St. Joseph, Michigan 49085
Remarks:
The
sculpture
was formerly installed in the courtyard at the entrance to the Krasl Art
Center
, but it was moved to the lawn in 1989. IAS files contain newspaper articles from the Herald Palladium (St. Joseph/Benton Harbor, MI), June 23, 1983; and the Southbend Tribune, June 26, 1983, pg. 40. For additional information see Kathryn Zerler's "On the Banks of the Ole St. Joe," St. Joseph Today, 1990.
References:
Krasl Art
Center
, 1988.
Save Outdoor
Sculpture
, Michigan survey, 1993.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Southbend Tribune, June 26, 1983, pg. 40.
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 63880001
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
63880001
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact