© Michael Hall
Interpretation
The reductive aspects of Minimalism can found in the stark, highly finished shapes of Michael Halls' aluminum and bronze sculpture Mastodon VI. Named for the extinct animal that the artist encountered in the Badlands of Nebraska, the tusk-like tubular shapes evoke fossilized mammal bones.
Information
- Title
- Mastodon VI
- Object Number
- y1969-81
- Maker
- Michael Hall
- Medium
- Bronze and aluminum
- Dates
- 1968
- Dimensions
- 94 x 223.5 cm. (37 x 88 in.)
- Credit Line
- The John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection, Princeton University
- Culture
- American
- Signatures
- Unsigned
- 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, 14
- Patrick Joseph Kelleher, Living with Modern Sculpture: the John B. Putnam, Jr., Memorial Collection, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1982)., 52–55
- 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)., 46–47, illus.
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