Sunday, May 28, 2023

2023 Road Trip: Laumeier Sculpture Park (5/28/2023)

Sunday, May 28, 2023
One more stop in Missouri, Laumeier Sculpture Park (1976) in Sappington, MO. Once again, our Tyler Arboretum has reciprocity with the sculpture park, but admission is free anyway!
Laumeier Lamps (2011, by T Kelly Mason), and yes,
the letters are UPSIDE down
Ricardo Cat (1999, by Niki de Saint Phalle); I think this
is the first of her works we have seen in the US (KSS)
Behind the Kranzberg Education Lab (1917 as an estate house)
with the sculpture Aurelia Roma (1994, by Manuel Neri)
Bornibus (1985-1987, by Mark di Suvero) with its
maquette in the foreground for visitors with visual impairments
I'm sure you noticed that eyeball, so here is the
maquette for Eye (2007, by Tony Tasset)
La Libellule/The Dragonfly (1996, by
Arman aka Armand P Fernandez)
The red and yellow "leaves" on the tree: When I Rise
(2018, by David Hutson) and Crete
(1976-1978, by Charles Ginneveer)
The Way (1972-1980, by Alexander Liberman)
Hawthorne Tree (1987, by Isaac Witkin)
Cubed Squared (1969, by
Jerald Jacquard)
Leaf Pavilion (2009, by Frank Schwaiger)
Heritage Schooner for Debra Lakin
September 30, 1998
(1998,
by George Greenamyer)
Donut No 3 (2002, by Fletcher Benton)
Cores for Laumeier (2003, by Mark Mennin) (KSS)
Ball? Ball! Wall? Wall! (1994, by Donald Lipski) (KSS)
Buzzer, Whisker the War Werm, and Dottie
(2014, by Tom Huck) (KSS)
The maquette for Four Shades (1994, by Ian Hamilton Finley),
which are the four trees beyond surrounding a depression (KSS)
The Palm at the End of the Parking Lot
(1995 when it surrounded a walnut tree,
reworked in 2023, by Robert lobe)
Face of the Earth #3 (1988, by Vito Acconci)
Deer (2015, by Tony Tasset) (KSS)
Earthmover (2014, by Marie Watt)
Intricate Wall (2001-2004, by Sol Lewitt)
Ada's Will (1990, by Jene Highstein)
Man with Briefcase at #2968443
(1986, by Jonathan Borofsky) (KSS)
Poet Sitting by Tree in Chair
(1975, by Ernest Trova)
Falling Man/Study (Wrapped Manscape
Figure)
(1984, by Ernest Trova)
The Space Between Scott and Plessy (2013, by Ken Lum)
memorializes Dred Scott and Homer Plessy, both who
challenged laws against their civil rights, one here in
St Louis and the other in New Orleans
Next: The National Road in Illinois and Indiana.

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