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    		• Haggerty, Thomas A.,
     
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    		• Abstract
     
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    		• Allegory -- Other
     
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    		• Occupation -- Industry
     
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    		• Occupation -- Industry
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Dewitt
     
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    		• Relief
     
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    		• Architectural component
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Builder, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Haggerty, Thomas A., 1961- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    Builder, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Sept. 1986.
    Medium: 
    Plywood, concrete and discarded building materials, including slate, wire mesh, wire cable, pulley, stone, steel, plastic tubing and fiber.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 10 x 16 x 7 ft.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    An abstract wall relief made of discarded building materials which are bolted or wired to a plywood wall and stuccoed with concrete. The elements are placed in such a way to suggest that the building materials themselves are constructing the relief. The relief is intended to be an allegorical portrait of builder and engineer James J. Haggerty.
    On the left side, pieces of broken slate are caged by a rectangular box of wire mesh. Attached to the cage is a wire cable which passes through a pulley and beyond the relief format to a "maverick" element located overhead. It consists of entrapped stone that insists on escaping the wall relief. The cable passes through an overhead pulley and travels back to the wall relief and through several other pulleys. Much of the right side of the relief consists of fragments of steel and stone that seem to be emerging from the wall. On the left side of the relief, around the mesh cage element, plastic tubing appears to be sinking in and emerging from the wall.
    Subject: 
    Abstract
    Allegory -- Other -- Haggerty, James J.
    Occupation -- Industry -- Engineering
    Occupation -- Industry -- Construction
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Dewitt
    Relief
    Architectural component
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Haggerty, James J., 107 Terrace Road, Syracuse, New York 13210
    Located Yellow Brick Road Industrial Park, Dewitt, New York
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was conceived by the artist in collaboration with his father, James J. Haggerty, and is an allegorical portrait of him. James Haggerty is a construction contractor and engineer. The sculpture is located in a small industrial park adjacent to the entrance to a building constructed and owned by James Haggerty.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1992.
    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 NY001160
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