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    		• Holt, Nancy,
     
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    		• Santini, Rusty,
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Wellesley
     
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    Wild Spot, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Holt, Nancy, 1938-2014, sculptor.
    Santini, Rusty, fabricator.
    Santini Brothers Iron Works, fabricator.
    Title: 
    Wild Spot, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Commissioned 1979. Copyrighted 1979. Installed March 25, 1980.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: wrought iron and native wild flowers.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 10 ft. x Diam 10 ft.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    An abstract sculpture consisting of a small planting of wild flowers surrounded by two concentric circles of wrought iron fencing. The vertical bars of the outer fence gradually increase in height from an opening in front to a high point at the back. Along the top and along the bottom of the outer fence is a horizontal bar that connects the vertical bars. The inner fence encloses the wild flowers.
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- Garden
    Architecture -- Detail -- Fence
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Wellesley
    Earthwork
    Site-specific
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Located Wellesley College, Central Street near Weston Road, North of Whitin Observatory, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181
    Owned by Holt, Nancy,
    Administered by Wellesley College, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 106 Central Avenue, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181
    Remarks: 
    "Wild Spot" was commissioned by Wellesley College for a temporary exhibition of siteworks held at Wellesley in the summer of 1980. After the exhibition, Wellesley wanted to keep the work and arranged with the artist to maintain the sculpture while the artist retained ownership. Rusty Santini and his assistants helpted to install the work on March 25, 1980. IAS files contain an article about "Wild Spot" written by Nancy Holt excerpted from Chelsea 39 (1980): pg. 180-185; and an excerpt from Judith Hoos Fox's "Aspects of the 70s: Sitework," Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1980, pg. 8-10. For additional information see the Boston Globe, June 1, 1980, pg. B1.
    References: 
    Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Chelsea 39 (1980): pg. 184-185.
    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 87740302
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