Historical Markers and War Memorials in Sunset Hills, Missouri
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Near Rott Road at South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Laumeier Park Road east of Rott Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Laumeier Park Road at Rott Road, in the median.
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
Near Laumeier Park Drive east of Rott Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road near South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Laumeier Park Road east of Rott Road, on the left when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Street, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Laumeier Park Road east of Rott Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Rott Road east of South Geyer Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
On South Lindbergh Boulevard at Eddie and Park Rd., on the right when traveling east on South Lindbergh Boulevard.
"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
