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    		• Luecking, Stephen,
     
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    		• Abstract -- Geometric
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Urbana
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Upwells, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Luecking, Stephen, 1948- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    Upwells, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1990.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Bronze and granite on a brick, granite and concrete plaza.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 40 ft. x D. 80 ft. x Diam. 125 in.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    A fountain and astronomical indicator consisting of five components. "The southernmost part is a bronze sphere mounted on a granite pedestal set in a circular basin of granite pavers with a concrete wall. There is an iron grate halfway over the top of the basin. The water collects in the basin and overflows onto a spillway of granite pavers, then drains through a grate. The basin is set into a circular plaza of brick and concrete pavers wiht a brick wall halfway around. North of this is a granite and bronze spire, seven-sided, in progressively smaller sections. It is set into granite pavers. Directly north of the spire are three bronze domes lined up on a north-south axis with hemispherical grates on to. The water bubbles up into the grates, out over the domes and down into flat grates around the base."
    Subject: 
    Abstract -- Geometric
    Object Type: 
    Fountain
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Urbana
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by University of Illinois, Board of Trustees, 506 South Wright Street, 354 Henry Administration Building, Urbana, Illinois 61801
    Located University of Illinois, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, 405 North Mathews Avenue, South plaza, Urbana, Illinois 61801
    Remarks: 
    The artist received a 250,000 dollar public arts commission from the University of Illinois for the creation of this piece. IAS files contain copies of the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette (Champaign, IL), June, 22, 1991 and Champaign-Urbana News Gazette (Champaign, IL), June 28, 1990, both discussing the astronomical functions of the piece. Looking through the tube in the bronze sphere at night, the light from the North Star is seen lighting up the spire's tip.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Illinois survey, 1992.
    Champaign-Urbana News Gazette (Champaign, IL), June 28, 1990.
    Champaign-Urbana News Gazette (Champaign, IL), June 22, 1991.
    Illustration: 
    Champaign-Urbana News Gazette (Champaign/Urbana, IL), June 22, 1991.
    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 IL000310
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