Boulders, Salt Pond and Taro Fields, (sculpture).

Boulders, Salt Pond and Taro Fields, (sculpture).

Abe, Satoru, 1926- , sculptor.

Boulders, Salt Pond and Taro Fields, (sculpture).

Commissioned 1979. 1989. Dedicated Jan. 11, 1980.

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Copper and bronze, with artificial patination.

Overall: approx. 12 ft. x 36 ft. x 3.5 in.

(Engraved in small copper strip attached to lower right of central Taro Fields element:) SATORU signed

Landscape -- Rocks

Landscape -- Water

Outdoor Sculpture -- Hawaii -- Eleele

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 Eleele Elementary School, 4650 Uliuli Road, Library & Administration Building exterior, Eleele, Hawaii

The sculpture was funded through the State's one percent for art construction costs program.

(Bronze plaque on lower right side of wall:) State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Art in Public Places/"Boulders, Salt Ponds/and Taro Fields"/Copper/Bronze, 1979/by/Satoru Abe/State of Hawaii/Department of Accounting and General Services.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Hawaii survey, 1993.

State of Hawaii, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, 1991.

Garden Island, Oct. 3, 1979.

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