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     > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Gray, Harry B.,     Schaefer, William P.,     Abstract -- Geometric     Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Pasadena     Fountain     Sculpture

The Polyhedron with 432 Symmetry, (sculpture). Artist:  Gray, Harry B., designer. Schaefer, William P., designer. Title:  The Polyhedron with 432 Symmetry, (sculpture). Digital Reference:  Medium:  Stone. Description:  A fountain with a sculpture of a polyhedron in the center. Water flows out from the top of the polyhedron and down over the sides and into the fountain basin. Subject:  Abstract -- Geometric Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Pasadena Fountain Sculpture Owner:  California Institute of Technology, Beckman Institute, Granville Courtyard, Pasadena, California Remarks:  The inscription on a nearby plaque reads: THE POLYHEDRON WITH 432 SYMMETRY/The polyhedron in the fountain is a snub cube, an Archimedean/semi-regular solid derived from a cube, with all its edges of equal/length. This shape was chosen for the central fountain in the/Beckman Institute because it mimics the symmetry of the iron storage protein ferritin, which has 24 identical protein subunits/arranged in 432 symmetry about a core of perhaps 4500 iron atoms in the form of hydrated ferric hydroxyphosphate. The snub/cube has 38 faces and 24 vertices, the vertices then representing/the subunits of ferritin. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995. 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 CA002107   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CA002107 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

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