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Sculptor:
Piene, Otto 1928-2014  Search this
Medium:
Stainless steel and crystal prisms
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures-Architectural component
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Coadministered by State of Hawaii Art in Public Places Program 250 South Hotel Street, 2nd Floor Honolulu Hawaii 96813
Coadministered by University of Hawaii at Manoa Institute for Astronomy 2600 Woodlawn Drive Honolulu Hawaii 96822
Located University of Hawaii at Manoa Institute for Astronomy courtyard Honolulu Hawaii
Date:
1975. Dedicated 1976
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Hawaii survey, 1993.
Radford, Georgia & Warren, "Sculpture in the Sun: Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces," Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978.
Image on file.
Hartwell, Patricia L, ed., "Retrospective 1967-1987," (Honolulu, HI:) State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, 1987, pg. 142-143.
Radford, Georgia & Warren, "Sculpture in the Sun: Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces," Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978, pg. 59-60.
unsigned
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.
Summary:
An abstract sculpture which represents the star field of the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters. Over one hundred and fifty prisms, at the end of varying lengths of stainless steel rods, projected horizontally from a wall.
Topic:
Abstract--Geometric  Search this
Allegory--Place--Extraterrestrial  Search this
Control number:
IAS 87600036
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_295606