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Barnett Newman: English: Broken Obelisk.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Barnett Newman  (1905–1970)  wikidata:Q374504 q:en:Barnett Newman
 
Barnett Newman
Description American-Polish painter, sculptor, printmaker, illustrator and graphic artist
Date of birth/death 29 January 1905 Edit this at Wikidata 4 July 1970 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death New York City New York City
Work period 1940s–1970
Work location
New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q374504
Title
English: Broken Obelisk.
Description
Despite the title of this file, this is Red Square, not The Quad[rangle]. Meany Hall in background.
Date Designed 1963, cast 1967
Medium Sculpture: Weathering steel (COR-TEN); base: COR-TEN steel, concrete and red brick.
Dimensions Sculpture: approx. 25 × 6 × 6 ft (762 × 182.8 × 182.8 cm); base: approx. 3 × 10 × 10 ft (91.4 × 304.8 × 304.8 cm).
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Accession number
94.087.
Object history One of an edition of three. Gift of the Virginia Wright Fund. Dedicated on 20 August 1971.
Inscriptions Plaque on base: "LIPPINCOTT, NORTH HAVEN, CONN." and unsigned founder's mark.
Notes Inventory of American Sculpture no. IAS 75008702.
Source/Photographer Own work; photographed by Gephart at English Wikipedia,

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