Stone Field Sculpture by Carl Andre - Hartford, CT
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N 41° 45.868 W 072° 40.486
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The "Stone Field Sculpture" is located at Gold Street between Main and Lewis Streets in Hartford.
Waymark Code: WMW0JJ
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 06/22/2017
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On a gently sloping lawn with scattered trees adjacent to the Hartford Ancient Burial Ground is an array of 36 boulders forming, approximately, an isosceles triangle. The triangle is 53' at its base and 290' from apex to base. The sculpture was the creation of Carl Andre and installed on August 22, 1977. According to the artist, "the sculpture represents New England's geological history and its juxtaposition next to the Center Church graveyard is intended to underscore the relationship of human time and geological time".
The thirty-six boulders that form the sculpture are organized with eight parallel rows of boulders. A single large brownstone boulder, about 4' high, is at the apex. The second row has two boulders, the third has three and so on until you reach the last row of eight boulders. Boulders diminish in size as you go from row to row. The boulders vary in geological origin. There are examples of sandstone, brownstone, granite, schist, gneiss, basalt, and serpentine boulders.
A plaque in front of the apex brownstone is inscribed:
STONE FIELD SCULPTURE
CARL ANDRE 1977
A GIFT TO THE CITY OF HARTFORD
HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PIBLIC GIVING
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.