Sculpture: aluminum, copper rods, Cor-Ten steel and stone, some portions painted; Base: concrete
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by City of Winthrop School Department Highland Avenue Winthrop Maine 04364
Located Winthrop High School Highland Avenue Winthrop Maine 04364
Date:
1989-1990. Dedicated May 20, 1990
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maine survey, 1994.
Anvil's Ring v. 19 no. 1 (Summer 1994): pg. 18-20.
Summary:
Sculpture is an octagonal tower topped with a sphere. Relief images whose themes include humanity and the environment appear on each side, on three panels per side. Using the four main subject areas of anthropology, astronomy, botany and zoology, the images include a deer, Atlantic Puffin, water, the sun, moon and planets Neptune and Saturn, fire, flowers, bass, the Berlin Wall, cell mitosis, tire tracks, faces, a grasshopper, crane and images based on the work of M. C. Escher.