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Babi Yar Park, (sculpture). Artist:  Nishita, Satoru, sculptor. Halprin and Associates, landscape architect. Title:  Babi Yar Park, (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated Oct. 1, 1983. Medium:  Gravel, native grasses, black granite and wood. Subject:  Emblem Ethnic -- Hebrew State of Being -- Death -- Execution History -- Europe -- Holocaust Allegory -- Place -- Ukraine Abstract Object Type:  Site-specific Outdoor Sculpture -- Colorado -- Denver Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City and County of Denver, Department of Parks & Recreation, 2300 15th Street, Suite 150, Denver, Colorado 80202 Located Babi Yar Park, Havana Street, Yale Avenue, Dayton Street, & Parker Road, Denver, Colorado Remarks:  Babi Yar Park is a memorial to the 200,000 victims, mostly Jewish, with Ukranians and others, who died at Babi Yar, Kiev (Ukraine, USSR), between 1941 and 1943. The park is laid out with six-foot wide gravel paths, which form a large Star of David. The landscaped park includes an Entrance Podium (CO000067); two Entrance Monoliths (CO000068); a Bridge (CO000070); a Stone Circle (CO000069), and a Grove of Remembrance (CO000071). For related articles see: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), Oct. 3, 1983; and Denver Post (CO), Oct. 2, 1983. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Colorado, Denver survey, 1993. City and County of Denver, Mayor's Office of Art, Culture and Film, 1996. 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 CO000072   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CO000072 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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