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...     Aycock, Alice,     Perkins Geddes Eastman,     Abstract     Allegory -- Arts & Sciences     Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Queens     Sculpture

Untitled, (sculpture). Artist:  Aycock, Alice, 1946- , sculptor. Perkins Geddes Eastman, architectural firm. Title:  Untitled, (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated 1992. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: steel and fiberglass, painted. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. H. 23 ft.; Base: approx. 33 x 33 ft. Description:  A constructivist assemblage with an astronomical configuration of pieces of painted grey steel. Located on the rooftop of the police precint building, the sculpture consists of a large "universe" bowl or disk inspired by 17th century astrolabes. Arranged around the bowl are fragments of doors, steps, wheels and a vessel like form. At night, light emanates from the framework of the vessel. The bowl is connected to an angled, flying truss unit supported by another vertical truss. The sculpture alludes to communications and technology. Subject:  Abstract Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Technology Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Queens Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of New York, Department of General Services, One Centre Street, New York, New York 10007 Located 107th Precinct Police Station, 71st Avenue at Parsons Boulevard, Roof, Queens, New York Remarks:  Sculpture funded through the City's Percent for Art program. It cost $84,000. Photograph in IAS image files is of the model for the sculpture. References:  City of New York, Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art Program, 1997. Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York, New York survey, 1993. New York Newsday, July 14, 1993. Illustration:  Image on file. New York Newsday, July 14, 1993. 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 NY000076   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NY000076 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

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