Wheel Sculpture

Wheel Sculpture

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Big Sweep by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen • Denver Monoliths by Beverly Pepper • For Jennifer by Joel Shapiro • Pilgrimage by Zhang Huan • Scottish Angus Cow & Calf by Dan Ostermiller • Wheel by HOCK E AYE VI Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne/Arapaho) • Willy, Argus and Lucky by Deborah Butterfield • Located on Martin Plaza outside the Hamilton Building Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, Big Sweep, 1999-2006. Stainless steel painted with epoxy primer, acrylic urethane base coat and acrylic polyurethane clear coat; 35 feet high. Denver Art Museum; Purchased in honor of Tom and Noël Congdon with funds from 1998 Collectors’ Choice, with support from the estate of Richard H. Bosworth, Cyprus Amax Minerals Company, Charles and Diane Gallagher, Jerry Gart Family Foundation, Frederic C. and Jane Hamilton, Hines, Jan and Frederick R. Mayer, Paul and Lilly Merage, Larry and Carol Mizel, Ken and Judy Robins, Titanium Metals Corporation, Carl and Lisa Williams, Ginny Williams, and an anonymous donor. Additional funding was provided by Mark and Polly Addison, Joan Anderman, Bruce and Marcy Benson, Nancy Lake Benson, Jim and Janice Campbell, Howard and Beulah Cherne, Steven and Robin Chotin, Tom and Noël Congdon, Peter and Philae Dominick, Suzanne Farver, Leonard and Kay Gemmill, Dorothy Strear Goodstein, Robert and Diane Greenlee, Heidi Hamilton, Mark and Diana Hayden, Harley and Lorraine Higbie, A. Barry and Arlene Hirschfeld, Grafton and Sue Jhung, Glenn Jones and Diane Eddolls, Mariner and Megan Kemper, Bill and Alma Kurtz, Ed and Margaret Anne Leede, Susan and John W. Madden III, Caroline Morgan, Trygve and Vicki Myhren, NBT Foundation, Denny and Judy O’Brien, Andrea Singer Pollack, and an anonymous donor. 1998.496. © 2006 Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen By changing the scale and substance of common, everyday objects, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen amaze us with the unexpected: a 101-foot-tall steel baseball bat, a set of concrete pool balls [Google Places type: museum]