Wind Sculpture by George Baker

by Janette Boyd

Title

Wind Sculpture by George Baker

Artist

Janette Boyd

Medium

Photograph - Photo/texture

Description

Photo of Wind Sculpture located near Kearney, Nebraska. Photo was taken on road trip from Oklahoma to Seattle. Sky texture courtesy of FAA Artist, Pamela Phelps. Using Corel Paint, I added a purple hue to the metal sculpture and water, using Corel's "effects" technique.

Featured by the following FAA Groups:
*The World We See
*Out of the Ordinary
*Weekly Fun for All
*Clouds Always the Same Never the Same
*All Things Reflective
*Landscapes & Landmarks

Thank you to all the FAA Group Administrators who have featured my work.

This floating wind sculpture was commissioned during the American Bicentennial celebration by the state of Nebraska. It was part of a statewide program for the arts involving the commissioning of ten large works of art at various sites around the state.

This stainless steel sculpture has eight moving shapes gently swaying in the breeze. It weighs over 3,000 pounds and measures 16 feet (5m) high and 26 feet (8.3m) long.

George Baker has been making large sculpture while teaching at Occidental College in Los Angeles beginning in 1965. His use of the studios there has been advantageous both for him and for the students who have taken his classes. Virtually all of the following large commissions were completed with students and former students hired to do all of the planning and fabrication.
The first large-scale sculpture Mr. Baker made was for EXPO '70 in Osaka, Japan, a large kinetic fountain that was later moved to the Hakone Outdoor Sculpture Museum.This project was followed over the next few years by a number of large commissions...
Courtesy of http://www.peltzer.net/georgebaker/portmonu.htm

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February 2nd, 2015

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