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...     Abe, Satoru,     Walters, Kimura, Motoda, Inc.,     Disaster -- Volcanic Eruption     Landscape -- Mountain     Outdoor Sculpture -- Hawaii -- Aiea     Sculpture

Volcano, (sculpture). Artist:  Abe, Satoru, 1926- , sculptor. Walters, Kimura, Motoda, Inc., landscape architects. Title:  Volcano, (sculpture). Dates:  Commissioned April 20, 1979. Cast Aug. 1980. Completed Jan. 1981. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: copper and bronze; Foundation: concrete and river rock. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. H. 17 ft. x D. 21 ft. x Diam. 80 ft.; Foundation: approx. Diam. 160 ft. Description:  An abstract sculpture, with shape similar to volcano. The work is larger/wider at the bottom, open at the top which is crowned with vertical appendages, disjointed, jutting upward. There are three entrances around the sculpture, each approximately 6 x 3 x 4 feet, allowing a person to walk in to the "volcano" and gaze skyward out through 14 different "windows" set at random heights. Overall color is brown/reddish with gold highlights. Abstract wall markings on surface. An iron grating (approximately 3 inches wide), flush to the ground, circles the sculpture to collect water. Subject:  Disaster -- Volcanic Eruption Landscape -- Mountain Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Hawaii -- Aiea Sculpture Owner:  Administered by State of Hawaii, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Program, 250 South Hotel Street, 2nd Floor, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Located Aloha Stadium, 99-500 Salt Lake Boulevard, Box Office Plaza, main entrance, Aiea, Hawaii Remarks:  IAS files contain related excerpt from booklet: "Artists of Hawaii," Dept. of Education, State of Hawaii, RS 84-7078, Jan. 1985, pg. 31, 33-34, 36-37. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Hawaii survey, 1993. State of Hawaii, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, 1991. 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 66260052   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 66260052 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.0

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