Column 24 - Salt Lake City, UT - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This multi-colored painted column was commissioned by the Salt Lake Arts Center in downtown Salt Lake City. It consists of a square column that measure about 1 foot on each side and 24 feet in height. The use of multi-colors includes: red, white, blue, yellow, and stainless steel.

There is a nearby plaque on the outside wall of the Salt Lake Arts Center that lists donors and dignitaries.

"BOLOTOWSKY, Ilya (1 July 1907-22 November 1881). Born in Russia, he came to American as a teenager and attended the National Academy of Design. Influenced by the biomorphic abstraction of Joan Miro in the 1930s, he made in 1936 for the Williamsburg Housing Project in New York City one of the first abstract murals. (It was in the 1990s on loan to the Brooklyn Museum.) Meeting Piet Mondrian when the latter immigrated to New York in the early 1940s, Bolotowsky turned to geometric abstraction after WWII, favoring yet more rigorous horizontal/vertical fields typically limited to primary colors, sometimes in varying shades. By 1950 Bolotowsky introduced circular and diamond-shaped canvases followed by ovals and other unusual rectangles. In the 1960s, he began to make elegant sculptures that had straight sides and were painted with his signature colors. The orderly progress of his career was ended prematurely with his fall down an elevator shaft. (His son Andrew B. [1949] became a distinguished American flutist, accomplished in avant-garde as well as traditional musics.)

Murals: Williamsburg Housing Project, Brooklyn, 1936.
Cinema I, New York, NY, 1963.

Paintings:
Scarlet Diamond, 1969.
Large Vertical, 1951-59.

Scrulpture: Metal Column B, 1966.

Outdoor Sculpture:
Column 24, Salt Lake City, 1981."
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TITLE: Column 24 ARTIST(S): Ilya Bolotowsky DATE: 4/25/1981 MEDIUM: Sculpture: painted and polished stainless steel (?); Base: polished stainless steel CONTROL NUMBER: IAS UT000124 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: On the north side of the Salt Lake Arts Center at 20 South West Temple Street DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None noted.

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