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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque
     
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    Ice Palace, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Hamilton, Bruce, sculptor.
    Hamilton, Susan, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Ice Palace, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1986.
    Medium: 
    Acrylic.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 8 1/2 x 20 x 11 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On front panel near the top:) "ICE PALACE"/1986/Bruce & Susan Hamilton Glorieta, New Mexico/Commissioned for the Carrie Tingley Hospital and/the Citizens of the State of New Mexico by the/ART IN PUBLIC PLACES PROGRAM OF THE NEW MEXICO/ARTS DIVISION OF THE OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS unsigned
    Description: 
    An abstract sculpture resembling a castle, made of 3/4 inch acrylic panels with metal fastenings. The sculpture functions as a playhouse for children. Sculpture has three groupings--one of two stories, one of three stories, and a third, one story section connected to the others by an above-ground crossover of three units. Sculpture has ladders cut in the side panels for climbing, and big holes in the panels for play.
    Subject: 
    Abstract
    Architecture -- Other -- Playground
    Architecture -- Castle
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Carrie Tingley Hospital, 1127 University NE, In front, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
    Remarks: 
    The cost of the sculpture was over $12,000, and was funded by New Mexico One Percent for the Arts and the Art in Public Places program of the New Mexico Arts Division of the Office of Cultural Affairs. It was created by Susan and Bruce Hamilton. The sculpture was commissioned for the hospital. The sculpture is child participatory, intended for children who are patients, and is wheelchair accessible. IAS files contain two related articles from the hospital publication The Tingley Times (July-Aug. 1986), and The Tingley Times 3 (May-June).
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico survey, 1994.
    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 NM000383
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