Sentimental Scale and Wedge, (sculpture).

Sentimental Scale and Wedge, (sculpture).

Hunt, Richard, 1935-2023, sculptor.

Sentimental Scale and Wedge, (sculpture).

1977. Installed Oct. 5, 1977.

Sculpture: welded sheets of bronze.

2 parts. Scale: approx. H. 10 ft. x W. 7 ft.; Wedge: approx. H. 5 ft. x W. 15 ft.

R HUNT 77 JF BM EJ signed

Two separate abstract pieces installed under the covered entrance to the Justice Center. The two pieces seem to reach out to each other. They are hollow inside and were cut from individual sheets of bronze. The pieces were then welded together and polished. One piece is a free-standing upright with a sloping, four-sided base. The other is a horizontal rectangular piece that is flush against a wall. It extends several feet along the wall and wraps around the corner.

Homage -- Desnos, Robert

State of Being -- Phenomenon -- Surreal

Allegory -- Quality -- Justice

Allegory -- Quality -- Charity

Object -- Tool -- Scale

Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Cleveland

Administered by Cuyahoga County, Department of Central Services, 208 St. Clair Avenue, N.W., Charles Building, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Cuyahoga Justice Center, West 3rd Street, West entrance terrace, Cleveland, Ohio

Located Cuyahoga County Justice Center, Lakeside Avenue & West 3rd Street, north entrance, Cleveland, Ohio

IAS files contain a sheet on the sculpture from the Justice Center's information packet which notes that the work is meant to suggest justice, tempered by mercy. "Sentimental scales" is a phrase taken from a poem by surrealist, Robert Desnos. The sculpture was donated to the city by the Cleveland Foundation.

Lybarger, Helen Baldwin, "A Survey of Public Monuments in Cleveland," Cleveland, OH: Early Settlers Assoc. of Cleveland & the Western Reserve, 1979. (booklet)

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cleveland survey, 1992.

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