1970. Installed 1973 at Art Museum of Philadelphia and moved in 2019 to University of Pennsylvania, which has sited it on Shoemaker Green between Franklin Field and Ringe Squash Courts).[1]
Medium:
Sculpture: Cor-Ten steel; Base: granite with plywood support.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 174 x 123 x 61 in.; Base: approx. 29 x 138 1/2 x 101 in. (18,000 lbs.).
Inscription:
(Base:) ATMOSPHERE AND ENVIRONMENT XII/1970/LOUISE NEVELSON unsigned.
Administered by Association for Public Art (aka aPA, and fka as Fairmount Park Art Association), which loaned it to University of Pennsylvania in 2019[2] Fairmount Park Art Association was located at 1616 Walnut Street, Suite 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
Formerly Located Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Western entrance terrace, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19130
Smithsonian Control Number: IAS PA000013
Published before 1978 without visible copyright notice, therefore in the public domain
Date
6 January 2012
Medium
Cor-Ten steel
Current location
West porch of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Source/Photographer
Own work
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