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    		• Holt, Nancy,
     
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    		• Abstract
     
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    		• Architecture -- Detail
     
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    		• Landscape -- Rocks
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- New Haven
     
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    		• Site-specific
     
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    End of the Line/West Rock, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Holt, Nancy, 1938-2014, sculptor.
    Title: 
    End of the Line/West Rock, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1985. Installed Aug. 1, 1985.
    Medium: 
    Painted steel, brown fieldstone.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 12 x 30 x 10 ft.; Boulder path: approx. L. 355 ft.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    A site-specific environmental sculpture that is comprised of two thin concentric metal rings (painted black) set within a curved stone wall. The outer ring is 8 feet in diameter; the smaller ring is 6 feet in diameter. In front of the wall, an 8 foot 6 inch diameter ring is set into the ground. Fifty-one boulders form a 355 foot serpentine path leading from the sculpture to a parking lot.
    Subject: 
    Abstract
    Allegory -- Place -- New Haven
    Architecture -- Detail -- Wall
    Landscape -- Rocks
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- New Haven
    Site-specific
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Coadministered by Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Percent for Art Program, 227 Lawrence Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06106 Accession Number: CCA85.5/RS-71
    Coadministered Southern Connecticut State University, Maintenance Department, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06515
    Located Southern Connecticut State University, Opposite 131 Farnham Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06515
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was commissioned under Connecticut's Art in Public Spaces Program and was purchased for $43,280. It was commissioned in conjunction with the construction of Brownell Hall and commemorates West Rock, a New Haven landmark. The boulders were selected from a New Haven quarry with the assistance of stone mason Sergio Ricci.
    IAS files contain site diagrams for the sculpture (which incorporates part of an existing retaining wall in addition to the built masonry wall); correspondence from the State Commission on the Arts, Sept. 10, 1985; and article from New Haven Journal Courier, Sept. 10 or 16th, 1985.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.
    Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 1990.
    Office of Cultural Affairs, City of New Haven, 2007.
    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 65730045
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