Creation Date

Sculpture creation date: 1989-1990

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Black and white photograph of a tall, octagonal metal sculpture topped with a large sphere and decorated with panels showing natural and symbolic imagery, standing on a lawn beside school buildings and parked cars. The sculpture, titled "Reflections from Nature," 1989-1990, is by Ron Cross, Mary Dyer, Keith Leavitt, J. Murray Rowe, and 20 Winthrop High School students. It was created as a project of the Winthrop High School Fine Art and Metal Art classes, with Dyer and Leavitt as instructors and Ronald Cross, artist in residence, as project director. The work reflects four themes—anthropology, astronomy, botany, and zoology. Each vertical face of the sculpture is divided into three stacked, rectangular panels. On the left front, one panel shows a stylized sun with a human face and radiating rays, beneath which another panel depicts a large circular moon shape rising behind jagged silhouettes that resemble foliage, and a lower compartment filled with rounded stones stacked behind an open frame. The central front panels include a forged deer head, by Murray Rowe, that projects outward from a recessed box, a small mask-like face above another human head in profile, and a lower compartment featuring a pair sculpted shaking hands. The right front panels display a relief of tall, slender herons, an open compartment with wave-like forms on its back wall, and a lower panel containing several elongated, textured shapes that resemble tire treads. The sculpture unveiled May 19, 1990. 1994. Unidentified, photographer. (NA4800.)

Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) (1990-1995) was a nationwide survey that ran from 1990-1995 documenting America’s outdoor sculpture. Established in 1990, SOS! helped educate local communities about America’s endangered sculptural heritage. The Maine Arts Commission was one of 106 organizations to participate in this survey.

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Sculpture

Collection

MF161

Series Number

NA4800

Identifier

p17161

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Existence and Location of Originals

Located at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: AFC 2012/047 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013655211.

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