Administered by City of Manhattan Beach Parks and Recreation Department 1400 Highland Avenue Manhattan Beach California 90266
Located 9th & Valley/Ardmore Manhattan Beach California
Date:
1992. Copyrighted 1992
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995.
Image on file.
(On sculpture attached to tree at entrance of path:) MARIPOSA PATHWAY/AUGUST 1992/Funded by the City of Manhattan Beach/and/by the family of Julia Georgl Lane/in memory of her and her love of/Manhattan Beach/Artwork by/Christine Oatman
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Summary:
Site installation of seven galvanized steel butterflies along a running path. Several of the butterflies are displayed and mounted vertically in solid and open mesh viewing boxes. Each of these butterflies is viewed through a round aperture on the front of the box. The boxes are supported by metal poles. Other butterflies are mounted directly on the front of a flat, vertical plaque. The sides of the plaque are supported by two poles. Several of the butterflies are partially cut out of a metal plaque; the top wings are bent out giving added dimension. The seventh butterfly is an empty cutout shape in the center of a vertical metal plaque. At the entrance to the path is an eighth sculpture featuring the abstract shapes of three butterflies resting on a tree trunk.
