Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Phillips, David,
Burns, I,
Cox, M.,
Johnson, T.,
Cambridge Seven Associates,
Carol R. Johnson & Associates,
Abstract
Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge
Boulder
Site-specific
Sculpture
Porter Square Megaliths, (sculpture).
Artist:
Phillips, David, 1944- , sculptor.
Burns, I, assistant.
Cox, M., assistant.
Johnson, T., assistant.
Cambridge Seven Associates, architectural firm.
Carol R. Johnson & Associates, landscape architect.
Title:
Porter Square Megaliths, (sculpture).
Dates:
1980-1984. Cast 1983. Dedicated May 3, 1985.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Granite boulders and cast bronze.
Dimensions:
Overall: approx. 5 ft. 8 in. x 20 ft. x 20 ft.
Inscription:
(On raised portion of "Birth of a Bollard" sculpture:) DAVID PHILLIPS/1983 (On side of "Birth of a Bollard" sculpture:) ASSISTANTS/I. BURNS/M. COX/T. JOHNSON (On west boulder, near bottom of bronze:) DAVID PHILLIPS/1983 (On south boulder, near bottom of bronze:) DAVID PHILLIPS/1983 (On east boulder, near bottom of bronze:) DAVID PHILLIPS/1983 signed
Description:
A site-specific installation consisting of four granite boulders that have slices taken out and replaced with cast bronze replicas of the stone sections. The sliced boulders are surrounded by a two level plaza adjacent to the Porter Square subway station. The floor of the plaza is marked in a grid pattern with wide strips of granite. The steps leading to the lower level of the plaza are marked with stone bollards (square posts). The artist wanted to make the plaza look as though it had been shaped around the boulders, so he made the cuts in his boulders line up with the precise edges of both the granite strips on the plaza floor and the granite bollards at the plaza steps. One of the granite boulders even features a bronze bollard emerging from the top --the artist calls this one "Birth of a Bollard."
Subject:
Abstract
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge
Boulder
Site-specific
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Located Porter Square Station, Plaza on Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Remarks:
This installation was commissioned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority through the Cambridge Arts Council's Arts On The Line program. The bronze pieces were cast in the artist's studio and assistance was provided by I. Burns, M. Cox, and T. Johnson. IAS files contain a fact sheet from the Cambridge Arts Council's Arts On The Line program; an article from the Boston Globe, March 4, 1979, pg. A10-12; an article from Arts New England 15 (June/July 1994): pg. 39-40; an excerpt from "Public Art in Cambridge," Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Arts Council, 1984, pg. 23; and an excerpt from "Red Line Northwest Extension" booklet on subway art published by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Cambridge Arts Council, c. 1985.
References:
Cambridge Arts Council, Percent for Art Program, 1990.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1994.
Illustration:
Image on file.
"Public Art in Cambridge," Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Arts Council, 1984, pg. 23.
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 65710008
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
65710008
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact