Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     Return to results > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Barden, Jim,     Abstract -- Geometric     Architecture     Earthwork     Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Stamford     Sculpture

16 Concrete Containers, (sculpture). Artist:  Barden, Jim, 1948- , sculptor. Title:  16 Concrete Containers, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Sixteen Concrete Containers, (sculpture). Dates:  1969. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Steel-reinforced concrete castings in earthwork. Dimensions:  Overall grid: approx. 15 x 180 x 180 in.; Each concrete casting: approx. 15 x 30 x 30 in. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  Sixteen identical concrete castings. Each casting is a natural concrete colored rectangular block, comprised of four walls, no top or bottom. The 16 blocks are arranged on a grid plan of four parallel rows of four blocks each with space between the rows. This square cluster of blocks is centered in a shallow below-grade depression. The entire site is grass-covered. Subject:  Abstract -- Geometric Architecture Object Type:  Earthwork Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Stamford Sculpture Owner:  Canaan Ridge School, 2810 Long Ridge Road, Stamford, Connecticut 06903 Remarks:  The sculpture was exhibited in Central Park, New York City in the spring of 1969 by the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs. In June 1969, the sculpture was moved to Stamford, Connecticut, to the grounds of St. Francis' Episcopal Church, leased by the Canaan Ridge School. Around 1993, the sculpture (deemed by the state as a hazard to children) was relocated from the school's playground to about 50 feet north. One image on file with IAS shows sculpture sited in Central Park. IAS files include statement from the artist who intended the sculpture "to suggest the above-ground part of a larger subterranean architecture, and thus contrasts what can be seen with what is hidden from view, like a tree and its roots." References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1995. 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 CT000157   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CT000157 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact