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Twist, (sculpture). Artist:  Tacha, Athena, 1936- , sculptor. Sam Emerson Company, contractor. Title:  Twist, (sculpture). Dates:  1980-81. Installed 1981. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sandstone. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 8 x 18 x 14 ft. (20 ton). Inscription:  unsigned Description:  Twist is a freestanding abstract sculpture composed of twenty-four slabs of unpolished sandstone stacked and fanned so as to create a gentle twist. At the bottom the slabs are arranged in two separate "legs." Each "leg" is composed of eight slabs of stone. The stone slabs of the two legs are fanned in opposite directions. A third stack of eight stones slabs sits atop the two legs. The bottom four slabs fan clockwise and the top four slabs fan counterclockwise. The sculpture is based on an idea of 1977 and is typical of the artist's pyramidal step sculptures created since 1974. Subject:  Abstract -- Geometric Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Cleveland Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Located Case Western Reserve University, Harris Park, Bellflower Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Remarks:  Funding provided by the Mildred Andrews Fund. In 1991, the artist reported that the piece was coated with an anti-graffiti coating applied by Kapton Caulking and Building Restoration, Brecksville, Ohio. An inscription on a nearby plaque reads: THE JOHN AND MILDRED PUTNAM COLLECTION/TWIST/BY/ATHENA TACHA/1981. For related information see Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), Sept. 27, 1981, pg. C27 and Aug. 24, 1980, pg. D18. References:  Tacha, Athena, 1991, 1997. Murry, Stacie A., "A Guide to the John & Mildred Putnam Collection," Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, [1983]. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cleveland survey, 1992. Tacha, Athena, "Dancing in the Landscape: The Sculpture of Athena Tacha," Washington, D.C.: Editions Ariel of Grayson Publishing, 2000, pg. 132. Illustration:  Image on file. "Athena Tacha: Public Works, 1970-1988 A Retrospective Exhibition," High Museum of Art, 1989, pg. 19. 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 74240003   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 74240003 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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