© Michael Hall
Currently not on view
Mastodon VI,
1968
Michael Hall, American, born 1941
y1969-81
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Didactics
The reductive aspects of Minimalism can found in the stark, highly finished shapes of Michael Halls' aluminum and bronze sculpture <em>Mastodon VI</em>. Named for the extinct animal that the artist encountered in the Badlands of Nebraska, the tusk-like tubular shapes evoke fossilized mammal bones.
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Title
Mastodon VI
Dates
1968
Maker
Medium
Bronze and aluminum
Dimensions
94 x 223.5 cm. (37 x 88 in.)
Credit Line
The John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection, Princeton University
Object Number
y1969-81
Signatures
Unsigned
Culture
Type
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Sanford C. Reynolds, Jr., John N. Brooks, Jr., Edmund L. Keeley, James M. Markham, and John A. McPhee, the editorial board, "The Putnam sculpture: 20th Century masterpieces give dramatic perspectives to Princeton's familiar vistas", Princeton alumni weekly 70 (Jan. 27, 1970): p. 1214
, p. 14 (illus.) - Patrick Joseph Kelleher, Living with Modern Sculpture: the John B. Putnam, Jr., Memorial Collection, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1982)., p. 66 (illus.)
- Jane McCarthy and Laurily K. Epstein, A guide to the sculpture parks and gardens of America, (New York, NY: Michael Kesend Pub., 1996).
- Karin Dienst, ed., Sculpture of Princeton University: including works from the John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection, (Princeton, NJ: Published by the Office of Communications, in association with the Princeton University Art Museum, 2004)., 28–29
