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Babi Yar Park: (Bridge), (sculpture). Artist:  Nishita, Satoru, sculptor. Halprin and Associates, landscape architect. Title:  Babi Yar Park: (Bridge), (sculpture). Other Titles:  (Bridge), (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated Oct. 1, 1983. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Bridge: painted wood, concrete and metal; Monoliths: black granite. Dimensions:  Bridge: approx. H. 9 x W. 5 x L. 50 ft.; Monoliths: each approx. 10 x 12 x 5 ft. Inscription:  (On monolith on west side of bridge:) Freedom or Power - The eternal struggle/Bridges or cattle cars - choose!/Me...but you, too - The eternal dilemma/Before and after all - The Rock!/Rabbi Raymond A. Zwerin unsigned Description:  A large wood bridge, covered with concrete abutment capped with metal. The bridge spans a ravine, with black granite monoliths at either end. The monoliths are rough-cut with a polished, 14 inch inset panel down the middle. Subject:  Ethnic -- Hebrew State of Being -- Death -- Execution History -- Europe -- Holocaust Allegory -- Place -- Ukraine Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Colorado -- Denver Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City and County of Denver, Department of Parks & Recreation, 2300 15th Street, Suite 150, Denver, Colorado 80202 Located Babi Yar Park, Havana Street, Yale Avenue, Dayton Street, & Parker Road, Denver, Colorado Remarks:  The Bridge is one of several sculptures designed as part of Babi Yar Park (CO000072), a memorial to the 200,000 victims, mostly Jews, with Ukranians and others, who died at Babi Yar, Kiev (Ukraine, USSR), between 1941 and 1943. See also Entrance Podium (CO000067); Entrance Monoliths (CO000068); Stone Circle (CO000069), and Grove of Remembrance (CO000072). For further reading see: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), Oct. 3, 1983; and Denver Post (CO), Oct. 2, 1983. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Colorado, Denver survey, 1993. City and County of Denver, Mayor's Office of Art, Culture and Film, 1996. 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 CO000070   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CO000070 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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