Model for Crescendo - Wheeling, West Virginia
Posted by: BruceS
N 40° 04.244 W 080° 41.485
17T E 526313 N 4435653
Abstract sculpture on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Waymark Code: WMKBCH
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 03/14/2014
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A free-form piece of bent and tapered stainless steel, with burnishing marks. The form is a loop of metal with rounded edge down and two sides not touching. One end of the piece is pointed straight up; the other points horizontally to the Northwest. The metal piece is mounted to a black marble base, which is on a concrete plinth. The plinth is surrounded by a circle of wood chips.
This is a model for a sculpture commissioned and owned by the Christiania Life Insurance Corporation, Tarrytown, New York. The model was a gift from Mr. Lloyd C. Briggs, then president of the CLIC, to his friend Father Al Jolson, then president of Wheeling Jesuit College.
- Smithsonia Art Inventory
The sculpture is as described in the Smithsonian Art Inventory. The sculpture is located of Swint Circle near Swint Hall, parking is available nearby