Historical Markers and War Memorials in Sunset Hills, Missouri

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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Sunset Hills, Missouri

1 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Anthony Caro (British, 1924-2013) — Java, 1976 COR-TEN steel 65 × 33 × 86 inches — Laumeier Sculpture Park Collection, gift of Marjorie Wyman —

Anthony Caro has been a key figure in the evolution of sculpture in the 20th century and is considered one of the most important British sculptors of his time. In most of his sculptor, Caro employs a broad vocabulary of forms including figures, . . . — — Map (db m219131) HM

2 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Donald Lipski (American, born 1947) — Ball? Ball! Wall? Wall!, 1994 55 steel marine buoys 66 × 66 × 3600 inches — Laumeier Sculpture Park Collection, gift of Terri Hyland —

Donald Lipski's work explores how context transforms the meaning of ready-made objects, through a whimsical combination of materials and site. Lipski's approach to art is mainly conceptual; he seeks to express ideas through not only the flaked . . . — — Map (db m219193) HM

3 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Ernest Trova (American, 1927-2009) — Abstract Variation Lozenger No. 3, 1980 stainless steel — 110 × 114 × 98 inches; Laumeier Sculpture Park Collection, gift of Judith and Adam Aronson —

Ernest Trova's Abstract Variation series reflects his interest in the precarious balance of chaos and order. The artworks in this series vary in scale, from modest to monumental, and were made of either COR-TEN or painted steel. . . . — — Map (db m219082) HM

4 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Ernest Trova (American, 1927-2009) — Poet Sitting by Tree in Chair, 1975 COR-TEN steel, natural finish 79 × 71 × 65 inches — Loan courtesy of St. Louis County Parks —

Trova's Poet series originated from his lifelong love of poetry. During his creative expansion in the early 1970s, Trova looked to his lyrical impulses, from one who had written his own poetry but also written about and studied the history . . . — — Map (db m219101) HM

5 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Ernest Trova (American, 1927-2009) —

Falling Man/Study (Wrapped Manscape Figure), 1984 57.5 × 10.75 × 22.25 inches Laumeier Sculpture Park Collection, Gift of Robert and Grace Brod

St. Louis native Ernest Trova is best known for his . . . — — Map (db m219108) HM

6 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Ernest Trova (American, 1927-2009) — Gox No. 3, 1974 stainless steel 109 × 60 × 20 inches — St. Louis County SLC #063918 —

Ernest Trova's Gox No. 3, 1974, comprised of jumbled geometric cut-outs, is aggressive in tone with a rigid repetition of active angular forms. The negative shapes teeter precariously while confined within the solidity of the steel . . . — — Map (db m219211) HM

7 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Geoffrey Krawzyck (American, born 1978) — Recess, 2014 brick, concrete, stone, wood dimensions variable — Laumeier Sculpture Park Commission, gift of the artist —

Geoffrey Krawzyck's site-specific installation is an interactive space that refers to the decline of the Cahokian culture and the contemporary decay of urban areas in St. Louis. Commissioned for Laumeier's exhibition Mound City, the . . . — — Map (db m219210) HM

8 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — George Greenamyer (American, born 1939) —

Heritage Schooner for Debra Lakin, September 301, 1998, 1998 forged and fabricated steel, steel pipe, machined steel and mechanical parts, granite base, industrial enamel paints 204 × 80 × 8 inches Laumeier . . . — — Map (db m219194) HM

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9 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Gigi Scaria — Woodhenge, 2016 — stainless steel, 192 inches. Courtesy the artists, New Delhi —

Inspired by a site visit to Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site two years ago. Scaria's Woodhenge, 2016 refers directly to the speculative theories about the collapse of the Mississippian civilization that was abandoned by the mid-13th . . . — — Map (db m204542) HM

10 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Healing —

Nature heals – spending time in the outdoors can improve your health. Forest Therapy is rooted in the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, often translated as "forest bathing." The term refers to taking in the forest atmosphere. It . . . — — Map (db m219088) HM

11 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Ian Hamilton Finlay (British, 1925-2006) —

Four Shades, 1994 elm, sycamore, pine, basswood, Kentucky bluegrass sod, topsoil dimensions variable Laumeier Sculpture Park Commission with funds from Aurelia and George Schlapp

Ian Hamilton Finlay's . . . — — Map (db m219143) HM

12 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Isaac Witkin (American born South Africa, 1936-2006) — Hawthorne Tree, 1987 cast bronze with patina, 68 × 101 inches — Laumeier Sculpture Park Collection, Gift of Adam and Judy Aronson —

Trained by modern masters like Anthony Caro and Henry Moore, Witkin explored both physical and psychological landscapes in his work, eventually developing a signature style of fluid and wildly organic bronze pieces. Rather than beginning with a . . . — — Map (db m219065) HM

13 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Jackie Ferrara (American, born 1929) —

Laumeier Project, 1981 red cedar, zinc-coated carriage bolts 187 × 228 × 261 inches Laumeier Sculpture Park Commission, with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Adler and an anonymous . . . — — Map (db m219095) HM

14 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Jenny Holzer (American, born 1950) — When someone is breathing… — one of ten plaques from the series Living, 1980-82, cast bronze, paint —

Laumeier Sculpture Park Collection with funds from Mark Twain Laumeier Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts Jenny Holzer has used text as an element in her work for decades. In Living, Holzer presents us with idiosyncratic, . . . — — Map (db m219062) HM

15 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Jonathan Borofsky (American, 1942) — Man with Briefcase at #2968443, 1986 epoxy enamel on fiberglass — 288 × 48 × 3 inches; Laumeier Sculpture Park Collection, gift of the artist —

Jonathan Borofsky's Man with Briefcase at #2968443, 1986, is a towering, white-collar holding a briefcase, an archetypal image displayed as a cut-out figure. In 1969, to aid his concentration, Borofsky began a process of numbering pieces . . . — — Map (db m219092) HM

16 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Ken Lum (Canadian, born 1956) —

The Space Between Scott and Plessy, 2013 cast bronze, wood, mixed media dimensions variable Laumeier Sculpture Park Commission with funds from The Mark Twain Laumeier Endowment Fund and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the . . . — — Map (db m219106) HM

17 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Laumeier Sculpture Park —

Established in 1976 and occupying 105 acres, Laumeier Sculpture Park has evolved from a rich history of land use including agriculture and private estates into one of the premier outdoor art museums in the country. Laumeier offers a wide variety . . . — — Map (db m219081) HM

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18 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Marie Watt (American, Born 1967) — Earthmover, 2014 — bronze, rubber; dimensions variable —

Courtesy the artist, PDX Contemporary Art and the Greg Kucera Gallery Commissioned for the exhibition Mound City Born to the son of Wyoming ranchers and a daughter of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation (Iroquois/Haudenosaunee), Watt . . . — — Map (db m219075) HM

19 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Northern Grove —

The Northern Grove acts as a gateway to the park, presenting a series of sculptural forms that combine both ancient and contemporary references. This area frames and is framed by the history of the Laumeier grounds providing an intellectual oasis . . . — — Map (db m219120) HM

20 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Pearl Fryar (American, 1939) — Topiary, 2013 hetz juniper trees dimensions variable — Laumeier Sculpture Park Commission, gift of the artist —

Voltaire's Candide leaves the reader with the sage advice to "tend your garden." When African-American artist Pearl Fryar began his remarkable topiary garden in Bishopville, South Carolina, he was not thinking about sculpture, but about winning . . . — — Map (db m219104) HM

21 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Robert Stackhouse (American, born 1942) — St. Louie Bones, 1987 — pine timbers, white stain, nails; 32 × 818 × 146 inches; Laumeier Sculpture Park Commission —

Seventy feet long, thirteen feet wide and following the contours of an uneven slope in Laumeier's Way Field, Robert Stackhouse's St. Louie Bones, 1987, creates a rippling silhouette on the Park's landscape. Conceptually modeled by the . . . — — Map (db m219079) HM

22 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Sol Lewitt (American, 1928-2007) — Intricate Wall, 2001-04 — concrete block, 96× 136 × 72 inches; Loan courtesy of the LeWitt Estate —

Intricate Wall confronts and confounds viewers and highlights the similarities and differences that exist between sculpture and architecture. During his artistic career as one of the most well-known Minimalist sculptors from the 1960's and . . . — — Map (db m219084) HM

23 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Steve Tobin (American, 1957-) — Walking Roots, 2002 cast bronze 96 × 169 × 154 inches — Loan courtesy of the artist —

Steve Tobin's Walking Roots, 2002, converts facets of nature into sculpture. Drawing on his interest in history and the natural world, Tobin is inspired by the power and wonder of ancient structures at Easter Island, the Giza Pyramids and . . . — — Map (db m219133) HM

24 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — The House — It's peaceful here, isn't it? — Nature Trail —

Since the founding of St. Louis, people have flocked out of the city to these Meramec River hills. In the late 1700s, folks came for the pure water & mineral springs. In the late 1800s, for resorts & country houses. Since the 1950s, for the leafy . . . — — Map (db m219064) HM

25 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Tom Huck (American, born 1971) —

Buzzer, 2014 Dottie, 2014 Whisker the Warm Werm, 2014 mixed media dimensions variable Laumeier Sculpture Park Commission with funds from Nancy and Ken Kranzburg, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Ellen and Durb . . . — — Map (db m219152) HM

26 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills, Laumeier Sculpture Park — Tony Tasset (American, born 1960) — Deer, 2015 — fiberglass, dimensions variable —

Laumeier Sculpture Park Collection with funds from the Mark Twain Laumeier Endowment Fund and donations from Dorte Bjerregaard, Jiamin and Michael Dierberg, Alison and John Ferring, Foundation for Sunset Hills, Nancy and Ken Kranzberg, Ramsey . . . — — Map (db m219073) HM

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27 ► Missouri, St. Louis County, Sunset Hills — All Gave Some, Some Gave All —

"In tribute to the founders of our nation and the guardians of our freedom, whose courage and selfless sacrifice of life, family and fortune, in service to our country, protect and preserve the independence, democracy and security of . . . — — Map (db m233435) WM

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