La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)
| La Grande Voile (The Big Sail) | |
|---|---|
 The sculpture in McDermott Court, 2008 | |
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| Artist | Alexander Calder |
| Year | 1965 |
| Medium | Steel sculpture |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 42°21′35″N 71°05′20″W / 42.359734°N 71.088975°W | |
La Grande Voile (The Big Sail), sometimes translated The Great Sail,[1] is a 1965 painted steel sculpture by Alexander Calder,[2] installed in McDermott Court on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.[3][4][5][6]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (August 22, 2013). Public Art at MIT. Retrieved October 14, 2024 – via YouTube.
- ^ "The Big Sail, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on March 27, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ "La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)". MIT List Visual Arts Center. January 27, 2014. Archived from the original on October 5, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
- ^ SM '04, Katherine Bourzac. "Is It Art?". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Shrock, Robert Rakes (September 23, 1982). Geology at MIT 1865-1965: A History of the First Hundred Years of Geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Department Operations and Projects. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262192118. Archived from the original on August 28, 2021. Retrieved November 19, 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ "10 of the best college art collections - Boston.com". archive.boston.com. Archived from the original on March 21, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
External links
[edit]- La Grande Voile (The Big Sail), 1965 at cultureNOW
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