tailieunhanh - The SCULPTURE of Princeton University

David Smith began to exploit the potentialities of stainless steel as a medium in the 1950s. He employed this material for the creation of his Cubi, a brilliant series of twenty-eight sculptures that were destined to become the capstone of hid career. It was David Smith himself who said, “I like outdoor sculpture, and the most practical thing for outdoor sculpture is stainless steel, and I make them and I polish them in such a way that on a dull day, they take on a dull blue, of the color of the sky in the late afternoon sun, the glow, golden like the rays, the colors of nature | The SCULPTURE of Princeton University The John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection The John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection Princeton is extraordinarily proud of the Putnam Collection. It is one of the country s most dramatic permanent displays of major twentieth-century sculpture containing superb examples of sculpture by the finest contemporary sculptors in the world. It is a tribute to the vision of the anonymous donor that he enabled Princeton to be one of the first university campuses in this country where one could see study and enjoy a group of distinctiveworks in a medium in which some of the most exciting developments in modern art are now occurring. In a residential university such as Princeton the campus the physical characteristics of the place have a pervasive effect. Lewis Thomas Class of 1933 in a speech given on Alumni Day 1981 described at Princeton as the look and the feel of an institution deliberately designed for thinking and kept that way through the years. The Putnam Collection is a major addition to Princeton s cultural resources offering an exceptional opportunity for learning that exposes the untutored to the best in modern art at the same time as it delights the most sophisticated art scholar. But even more the collection is a source of vitality a reminder of the possibilities of form for each of us as we walk on the campus. It is I think the ideal complement to the natural beauty of his University an added pleasure in the daily lives of each of us. William G. Bowen President Princeton University. The Bride Courtyard ofHamilton Hall Reg Butler British 1913-1982 The site of Reg Butler s The Bride -an intimate Gothic courtyard with fine trees- echoes the setting in which the sculpture was created. At his Elizabethan home in Berkhampsted Hertfordshire Butler had three workshops which he referred to as his three fields of cultivation. One is a garden where The Bride evolved over a five-year period from an initial plaster that was repeatedly .