Kenneth Snelson

American, 1927 - 2016

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Kenneth Snelson, Study for "Fair Leda", 1972, graphite on wove graph paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II), 2015.19.2759

Study for "Fair Leda"

Kenneth Snelson · 1972 · graphite on wove graph paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.2759

This sculpture is made up of ten long, stainless steel tubes standing upright in a ring. Each upright tube angles to the right and is tethered by one wire cable that connects the top edge to the ground and another that connects with the top of the next tube, creating a ring around the top edges. The tubes start to converge like a shutter but are stationary. In this photograph they stand on a snowy field under a cloud-carpeted sky.
Kenneth Snelson, V-X, 1967, stainless steel and wire cable, Gift of the artist, 2016.51.1

V-X

Kenneth Snelson · 1967 · stainless steel and wire cable ·  Accession ID  2016.51.1