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BreakFree, (sculpture). Artist:  Sandys, Edwina, 1938- , sculptor. Title:  BreakFree, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Break Free, (sculpture). Dates:  Installed Oct. 1993. Dedicated May 14, 1994. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: painted concrete and barbed wire, painted red; Base: concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 127 x 91 x 90 in.; Base: approx. 17 1/2 in. x 10 ft. x 8 ft. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  Silhouetted figures of a man and woman cut from sections of the Berlin Wall stand before an oversized section of red coiled barbed wire. The west-facing surfaces of the figures are covered in graffiti, applied when the Wall was extant, and the east-facing sides are clean. The sculpture illustrates Freedom from Fear, one of the Four Freedoms in President Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address which were later incorporated into the Atlantic Charter. Subject:  Figure group History -- Germany -- Berlin Wall Allegory -- Civic -- Liberty Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Hyde Park Sculpture Owner:  Administered by National Archives and Records Administration, 7th & Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia Located Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, 259 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, New York 12538 Remarks:  Gift of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. The artist acquired sections of the Berlin Wall when the wall was dismantled. These figures were cut from their companion piece, an 11 by 32 foot section of the wall that is the sculpture "Breakthrough," located at the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library in Fulton, Missouri (see IAS record 74110013). IAS files contain press release and related articles from the Kingston Freeman, Nov. 28, 1993 and the Poughkeepsie Journal, Oct. 16, 1993. A nearby plaque off the walkway in front of the sculpture reads: "The figures of the man and woman before you were cut from a large section of the Berlin Wall. The larger section, pictured above, is at the Churchill Memorial in Fulton, Missouri. Both works, the one here at the Roosevelt Library and the companion piece at Fulton, are the work of Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Winston S. Churchill. Dedicated on May 14, 1994 References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994. Illustration:  Image on file. Related Works:  Companion to: 74110013. 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 NY000959   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NY000959 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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