Sculpture Garden

On View: Sculpture Garden

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The sculpture consists of six geometric forms resembling chairs with rectangular backrests and flat seats arranged in a circle on a grassy area. The pieces are made from a reddish-brown stone-like material with a polished finish. Behind them are several trees below a pale blue sky.

Six-Part Seating

Scott Burton

conceived 1985, fabricated 1998

Granite  Accession ID  1998.146.1

On View: Sculpture Garden, Northeast Quadrant
The sculpture has thin, elongated legs sprawled out in various directions. At the center of all the legs is a cylindrical shape elevated off the ground which appears to be a body. There are grooves and indentations along the legs and body. It has a dark, metallic appearance that contrasts with its surroundings. The setting is outdoors, in a garden or park area, with grass and hedges surrounding the sculpture. In the background, there are trees with foliage in shades of orange and yellow. There are also several outdoor chairs visible under the trees.

Spider

Louise Bourgeois

1996, cast 1997

Bronze with silver nitrate patina  Accession ID  1997.136.1

On View: Sculpture Garden, Northwest Quadrant
This sculpture depicts a large object with a round red base and a white handle with a small hole in the center. Large tassels extend upwards out of the handle, appearing to be in motion. The tassels or bristles are long, thin, and dark blue, extending upwards and outwards. The colors of the sculpture are vibrant. The setting is outdoors amidst green grass with a backdrop of trees showing shades of orange, yellow, and brown.

Typewriter Eraser, Scale X

Coosje van Bruggen, Claes Oldenburg

model 1998, fabricated 1999

Painted stainless steel and fiberglass  Accession ID  1998.150.1

On View: Sculpture Garden, Northwest Quadrant
The sculpture appears to consist of a stack of teal chairs. The back of one chair leads into the front legs of the chair above it, forming a zigzagging vertical line. The chairs all appear to tilt forward slightly, their back legs suspended in air. The sculpture is located outdoors on grass, with green trees and a cloudy blue sky behind it.

Chair Transformation Number 20B

Lucas Samaras

1996

Patinated bronze  Accession ID  1998.99.1

On View: Sculpture Garden, Southeast Quadrant

Planar and Tubular

Richard Hunt

2012-2020

Welded stainless steel  Accession ID  2025.2.1

On View: Sculpture Garden, Southeast Quadrant
A rabbit with long ears and spindly limbs sitting on a boulder is cast in bronze in this freestanding sculpture. In this view, the rabbit’s body is angled to our left. It rests its long muzzle on its right fist, to our left. That elbow rests on the right, bent knee. The other wrist rests on the other bent knee. The textured boulder sits on a disk-like round base also cast in bronze, and the sculpture is displayed on a grassy lawn against a screen of mature green trees.

Thinker on a Rock

Barry Flanagan

1997

Bronze  Accession ID  1999.30.1

On View: Sculpture Garden, Southeast Quadrant
This free-standing sculpture is made up of panels and geometric shapes of vivid yellow, crimson red, white, and slate gray, all outlined with bold, jet-black lines, to create a simplified, cartoon-like, single-story house. The sculpture sits slightly off the ground on four metal feet, and is displayed on a grassy lawn with an iron fence and trees in the background. One short end of the house faces us, to our left. The peaked wall is white and is pierced with a window divided into six empty panes, two across and three down, and flanked by red shutters. Above the window is a tall, rectangular air vent with six horizontal slats. Below the window a loose grid of three horizontal lines and four short, vertical lines suggest an abstracted brick pattern. The long side of the house moves away from us to our right. It has a red chimney at the center of the gray roof. The wall of the front of the house is canary yellow. There is a white door at the middle and two more six-paned windows with red shutters to each side. Two shallow white steps leading down from the door are suggested by staggered, narrow rectangles. A dove-gray band runs along the bottom of both walls. All of the features, including the windows, shutters, door, chimney, roof, and gray band are outlined in black.

House I

Roy Lichtenstein

model 1996, fabricated 1998

Fabricated and painted aluminum  Accession ID  1998.147.1

On View: Sculpture Garden, Southwest Quadrant
Created with tiny, colored stones and glass, this mosaic shows groups of people along and near the edge of a brilliant, topaz-blue body of water with a large, lemon-yellow, stylized sun in the sky in this horizontal composition. The aquamarine blue and vibrant yellow along with lime green, lilac purple, oyster white, and teal used in the people and landscape give this work a shimmering look. A pair of people recline together under a tree in the lower right corner. A sheep stands nearby, and a bird perches in the tree above. Beyond the tree and to our left, a cluster of box-like forms suggests a city in the distance. Larger in scale, so seeming closer to us, a man wearing a lapis-blue toga and a yellow cap holds a stringed instrument, a lyre, in front of his body. To the left, at the center of the composition, a trio of women each wearing amethyst-purple, magenta-pink, or lapis-blue dresses stand close to each other. They have long, dark hair and their bodies and garments are outlined in black. Between them and the large sun to our left, a winged horse with a buttercup-yellow body and turquoise-blue wings rears up. Near the upper left corner, the stylized sun is represented by a disk surrounded by pointed peaks, surrounded by a larger disk outlined with another ring of triangular points. A winged person holding a set of pan pipes flies above the sun to our left, over a small crescent moon below. Near the lower left corner, two groups of people gather around a body of bright blue water occupied by two fish. The artist signed and dated the work in the lower right corner: “MArC ChAgAll 69.” The mosaic is displayed outside in front of a screen of trees, with a band of bushes with green and orange leaves below.

Orphée

Marc Chagall

1969

Stone and glass mosaic  Accession ID  2011.60.104.1-10

On View: Sculpture Garden, Northwest Quadrant
This sculpture features long looping forms resembling thick cords or vines that overlap with each other in a knotted jumble. It is made of a metallic material with a bronze-like finish, set on a flat rectangular base in an outdoor setting surrounded by green grass and trees with yellow and green foliage.

Untitled

Christopher Wool

2017

Bronze, copper-plated stainless steel, and stainless steel  Accession ID  2021.12.1

On View: Sculpture Garden, Southeast Quadrant

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