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...
Mitten, Peter,
Abstract
Ethnic -- Indian
Landscape -- California
Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Escondido
Sculpture
Hekkilk, (sculpture).
Artist:
Mitten, Peter, sculptor.
Title:
Hekkilk, (sculpture).
Dates:
1989.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: stone or dyed concrete; Base: concrete.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 8 ft. x 8 ft. x 10 ft. 1 in.; Base: approx. 2 ft. 2 in. x 19 ft. 7 in. x 11 ft. 6 in.
Inscription:
unsigned
Description:
An abstract sculpture comprised of a group of tilted concrete or stone planes, dyed to represent the surrounding landscape.
Subject:
Abstract
Ethnic -- Indian -- Diegueno
Landscape -- California
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Escondido
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Escondido, City of Escondido Public Arts Commission, Community Services Department, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, California 92025
Located Escondido Transit Center, East Valley Parkway, Escondido, California
Remarks:
Nearby plaque reads: "HEKKILK" ; "A BIG DENT, AS IN A PASS/THROUGH MOUNTAINS"/(FROM THE DIEGUENO INDIAN DICTIONARY)/THE PLAN VIEW OF THE SCULPTURE SHOWS A/PASSAGE BETWEEN THE TWO TILTED PLANES./THE PACIFIC OCEAN IS APPROXIMATELY/20 MILES SOUTH;/LAKE HENSHAW IS 20 MILES/EAST, AND;/PALOMAR MOUNTAIN/OBSERVATORY IS 19 MILES/NORTHEAST.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, California, San Diego survey, 1994.
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 CA000978
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
CA000978
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