High Plains Drifter - Houston, TX - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Per the "Houston Architecture" website: (visit link)

"Another piece of public art in Houston that the Houston public rarely gets to see. Not because it's being kept away from them, but because it's hidden behind an earthen berm around the side of a skyscraper near an entrance used only by employees. Still, High Plains Drifter is an impressive work. In the 1970's the developers of the Allen Center asked the Museum of Fine Arts Houston to find someone who could suggest a young artist to create a sculpture for their property. Art critic Clement Greenberg was the name the MFA/H came up with. He put together a panel of six artists: Peter Reginato, Michael Steiner, James Wolfe, Isaac Witkin, Ken Greenleaf, and Roger Williams. Each was given $1,000 to produce a model of their intended sculpture. Reginato won, but the scale of the work was beyond the capacity of his studio space. So the project was actually built [in two pieces] in Bennington, Vermont by Bob Walcott and trucked down to Houston [at which point the final two pieces were welded together in front of the Allen Center Tower complex in early 1974]."

TITLE: High Plains Drifter ARTIST(S): Peter Reginato (with welding by Bob Walcott) DATE: 1973... but installed at final location on Feb 12, 1974 MEDIUM: welded steel CONTROL NUMBER: IAS TX000611 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Back entrance of Two Allen Center business office complex. in downtown Houston, TX DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: none to note

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