Looking Toward the Avenue - New York City, NY
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N 40° 45.700 W 073° 58.755
18T E 586155 N 4512801
Located on 6th Avenue between 53nd and 52rd Streets in midtown Manhattan.
Waymark Code: WM105WF
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 03/04/2019
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Three neo-classical sculptures standing 14 feet tall on Sixth Avenue.
The Smithsonian catalog (
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"Artist:
Dine, Jim, 1935- , sculptor.
Unknown (Walla Walla, Washington), founder.
Title:
Looking Toward the Avenue, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Venus, (sculpture).
Dates:
Installed 1989.
Medium:
Each figure: metal; Each fountain base: black granite.
Dimensions:
3 figures. (Figure 1: approx. H. 14 ft.) (Figure 2: approx. H. 18 ft.) (Figure 3: approx. H. 23 ft.).
Inscription:
unsigned
Description:
Three abstract figures based on the Venus de Milo. The figures are mounted in black granite fountains which flank the entrance of the building. Two figures are installed in one fountain and the third figure is by itself in the other fountain.
Subject:
Figure female -- Nude
Figure female -- Torso
Object Type:
Fountain
Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- New York
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Tishman Spiers Realty, Art Department, 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019
Located 1301 Avenue of the Americas, entrance plaza, New York, New York 10019
Remarks:
The figures were commissioned by Tishman Speyer Trammell Crow Limited Partnership. Dine created the sculptures by pounding his clay models with boards and rocks in order to create hard, angular surfaces which appear to be worn by natural weathering. The patina appears aged as well."