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The New World, (sculpture). Artist:  Otterness, Tom, 1952- , sculptor. Hildebrand, Mark, fabricator. Willis Construction Company, fabricator. MJM Studios, fabricator. Title:  The New World, (sculpture). Dates:  1982-1991. Installed 1992. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: bronze; Frieze: cast concrete. Dimensions:  3 units. Frieze: approx. H. 14 x L. 150 x W. 4 ft. Description:  Installation in three parts around a central plaza. Nestled at the center of a round fountain is a reclining bronze infant, which appears to float on a cloud of mist and holds aloft a bronze globe. Across the plaza from the fountain, set in a niche in a pillar, an abstract metal female figure sits on a chair facing the baby in the fountain. Her proper left ankle is chained to the wall of the niche. On the figure's proper right is a small table with a globe on it. The third part of the installation consists of an overhead frieze of cast concrete running the length of a pergola. The frieze also continues down columns on either end of the pergola. The frieze is covered with abstract human figures carrying balls, pillars and boxes on their shoulders or under their arms. In the center of the frieze, a multi-armed human figure holds a knife in one of its proper left arms and a decapitated human head by the hair in one of its proper right hands. To the left of the center figure is a human figure hanging on to the underside of a rhinoceros. To the right of the center figure is a human figure laying on its back with an elephant standing on top of it. Subject:  Abstract Figure group Figure -- Child Figure female Object -- Other -- Globe State of Being -- Other -- Imprisonment Occupation -- Labor Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Los Angeles Architectural component Relief Fountain Sculpture Owner:  Administered by United States General Services Administration, Washington, District of Columbia Located Edward R. Roybal Federal Building, 255 East Temple Street, Los Angeles, California Remarks:  Nearby plaque: "Tom Otterness. The New World. 1982-1991. Commissioned for the United States by the General Service Administration Art-in-Architecture Program." Cost of the sculpture was $266,000. IAS files contain copy of related General Service Administration database record. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995. 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 CA001322   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CA001322 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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