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Bush
Harry Bertoia
Contemporary Art
Coming to Detroit at an early age, Harry Bertoia first learned jewelry making and later studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he remained after graduation to head the metalworking department. Bertoia created large-scale public-sculpture commissions as well as small-scale decorative pieces such as Bush, which demonstrates his early training in jewelry and fine metalworking. Although abstract, Bush evokes an underwater creature or a dandelion plant that has lost its fuzzy spores.
MEDIUM
Bronze, dark red and green patina
DATES
ca. 1975
DIMENSIONS
15 × 19 × 14 in., 29.5 lb. (38.1 × 48.3 × 35.6 cm, 13.38kg) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
1996.150.7
CREDIT LINE
Bequest of Mrs. Carl L. Selden
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
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CAPTION
Harry Bertoia (American, born Italy, 1915–1978). Bush, ca. 1975. Bronze, dark red and green patina, 15 × 19 × 14 in., 29.5 lb. (38.1 × 48.3 × 35.6 cm, 13.38kg). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Carl L. Selden, 1996.150.7. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1996.150.7_transp5592.jpg)
IMAGE
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