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(Site Specific Installation - Syracuse's Inner Harbor), (sculpture). Artist:  Crocker, Robert, sculptor. Potteiger, Matthew, sculptor. Title:  (Site Specific Installation - Syracuse's Inner Harbor), (sculpture). Dates:  1993. Medium:  Wood, wire fencing, gravel, construction flags, plastic, wire spools, Morning Glory vines and grass. Dimensions:  Approx. H. 10 ft. x Area: 200 sq. yds. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  Environmental sculpture consists of elements which reflect the various uses of its site. There are sculpted representations of salt shed houses and oil storage tanks. There are also images of natural growth and decay, stream and construction images. To convey the continually transformative nature of the site, the pieces are on wheels which move and converge on a central location. Subject:  Occupation -- Industry -- Foodstuff Occupation -- Industry -- Oil Occupation -- Industry -- Construction Architecture -- Industry -- Storage Tank Architecture -- Domestic -- Shed Landscape -- Marsh Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Syracuse Site-specific Kinetic Sculpture Owner:  Coadministered by Harbor Redevelopment Office, Syracuse, New York Coadministered by City of Syracuse, Department of Transportation, Syracuse, New York Located Syracuse Inner Harbor, Traffic island at intersection of Kirkpatrick, Solar and Court Streets, Syracuse, New York Remarks:  Commissioned as part of the Harbor Redevelopment project and designed to celebrate the historic and modern contexts of the site. The City and State Departments of Transportation donated $3,000 for the project. The artists are a graduate and professor from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Work on the sculpture began in June 1993 and was in progress at the time of the SOS! survey. IAS files contain the artist's statement, site plans, and related items from The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) June 4, 1993 and the Syracuse Herald-Journal, June 4, 1993. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1993. Illustration:  Syracuse Post-Standard, June 4, 1993, pg. B-3. 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 NY001252   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NY001252 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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