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    		• Acconci, Vito,
     
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    		• Abstract
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Michigan -- Detroit
     
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    Land of Boats, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Acconci, Vito, 1940-2017, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Land of Boats, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1988.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Concrete and metal.
    Description: 
    A playground sculpture consisting of approximately fifteen concrete boats with metal masts. The boats are partially submerged or turned over in an area designed to resemble a dock. The sculpture is located on a former dry dock at what is now St. Aubin Park.
    Subject: 
    Abstract
    Architecture -- Boat
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Michigan -- Detroit
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Detroit, Parks and Recreation Department, 735 Randolph, Detroit, Michigan 48226
    Located St. Aubin Park, Detroit, Michigan
    Remarks: 
    Funded with a National Endowment for the Arts, Art in Public Places grant of $10,000 given in 1988 to the Detroit Parks and Recreation Department. For additional information see Dennis Nawrocki's "Art in Detroit Public Places, Revised Edition," Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1999.
    References: 
    Heritage Preservation SOS! survey of NEA Art in Public Places funded sculpture, 2002.
    Detroit Historical Museum, City of Detroit Monuments, 2004.
    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 74960079
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