Lily Pad Art Bench - Palm Desert, CA
N 33° 43.177 W 116° 23.228
11S E 556781 N 3731236
This artistic bench is located on the south side of El Paseo Drive, the ritzy part of Palm Desert that is home to many expensive shops and restaurants.
Waymark Code: WMGQZ8
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/02/2013
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Shoppers walking along the south portion of El Paseo might notice this stainless steel bench in front of Coldwater Creek Clothing Store. There's a plaque near the bench that reads:
"Lily Pad Art Bench", 2005
by
Michael Todd
Commissioned by the Palm Desert
Art in Public Places Commission |
The artist, Michael Cullen Todd, has a professional website of his work as well as a bio. I also located a web link to this art bench on the palm-desert.org website and has the following description:
This bench by Los Angeles artist Michael Todd is the first art bench to be placed along El Paseo as part of the El Paseo Artistic Bench Project. Artists from across the United States were invited to submit designs to the Art in Public Places Commission for review and inclusion into an exclusive library of designs. Out of the more than 160 proposed designs, the Art in Public Places Commission selected 20 bench designs. The benches will be fabricated as sponsors are found. This bench was sponsored by the Art in Public Places Commission.
Michael Todd was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Notre Dame in 1957 and received an MA from UCLA in 1959. Todd has lived in Los Angeles and has taught at UCLA, UCI, UCSD, California Institute of the Arts and Otis Art Institute. He has exhibited in numerous individual and group shows at galleries and museums, and has work in the permanent collections at Storm King and the Whitney Museum in New York, the H. Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Norton Simon in Pasadena and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.
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Michael Todd also has a couple of other sculptures located in Palm Desert as part of the Art in Public Places program.