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    		• FitzGibbons, Bill,
     
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    		• Steel Fabricators,
     
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    		• Discovery Drilling,
     
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    		• Abstract
     
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    		• Landscape -- Celestial
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Alaska -- Anchorage
     
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    		• Sundial
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Solar Trails, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    FitzGibbons, Bill, 1950- , sculptor.
    Steel Fabricators, fabricator.
    Discovery Drilling, contractor.
    Title: 
    Solar Trails, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1987.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Shaft and walls: cement; Plaza: congregate rock with painted brass.
    Dimensions: 
    Shaft: approx. H. 14 ft. x Diam. 12 in.; Plaza: approx. W. 16 ft. x D. 26 ft.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    A sundial with a tall shaft in its center. Two triangular wedges are adjacent to the shaft with their sharpest corners touching the shaft's base. Distributed around the shaft and imbedded into the plaza are brass numbers, 8 through 12, 1 through 8. The plaza is enclosed by walls on two sides, with a boulder resting in front of one of the walls.
    Subject: 
    Abstract
    Landscape -- Celestial -- Sun
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Alaska -- Anchorage
    Sundial
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Anchorage Museum of History and Art, One Percent Art in Public Places, 121 West Seventh Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99501
    Located Spring Hill Elementary School, 9911 Lake Otis Parkway, Traffic island in front of entrance, Anchorage, Alaska
    Remarks: 
    Commissioned by Alaska One Percent for Art Program for $15,308. Steel Fabricators fabricated the brass numbers, and Discovery Drilling drilled the foundation for the shaft and erected the shaft. The shadow of the shaft falls onto the plaza, and the viewer can tell the time between 8 am and 8 pm. The two wedges are in alignment with the sunrises on the summer and winter solstices. IAS files contain the One Percent Art in Public Places catalogue sheet (accession number: P.87.55.4). For related readings see: "Alaska Sense," Biography: 1987, pg. 14.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Alaska survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    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 AK000083
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