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Object NameSculpture
Artist / Maker
Thomas Stancliffe
((American, b. 1955))
Date1994
Mediumpatinated steel and bronze
Dimensions49 3/4 x 9 x 10 3/4 in. (126.4 x 22.9 x 27.3 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of the artist. In the Art on Campus Collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberU2005.7
Status
Not on viewLabel TextCommissioned for the Land of the Fragile Giants exhibition presented at the Brunnier Art Museum in 1993, this sculpture denotes the Loess Hills of western Iowa and the Missouri Rivers that flows near the hills. Loess soil is extremely fine in texture and is easily blown by prevailing winds. As the wind and soil were carried across the expansive river basin millennium ago, the soil was deposited on the east side of the river, in effect forming a dune of soil that is over 300 feet tall and 120 miles long.
Locations
- (not entered) Iowa State University, Brunnier Art Museum
Object Name: Sculpture Base for "Megaplanet"
Thomas Stancliffe
2001
Object number: UM2000.141