COLLECTION NAME:
Landscape Architecture
Record
Title:
Cloud Gate
Title.Series:
Millennium Park: Chicago
Creator.Persons:
Kapoor, Anish, 1954-
Notes:
Built 2003. Description: This 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a gate to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives. The images below feature the artwork at different times of the day and evening as the sky, light and human reflections change accordingly. Media: highly polished stainless steel. Size: 66-feet long by 33-feet high
Description:
Straight on view of artwork western side at sunrise with city reflection
Subject.Persons:
Kapoor, Anish, 1954-
Subject:
Parks ;Landscape architecture ;Public art ;Public sculpture ;Plazas
Location:
Millennium Park (Chicago, Ill.) ;Illinois -- Chicago
Collection Title:
Landscape Architecture
Publisher.Location:
Seattle, WA
Publisher:
Art on FIle
Image.Publisher:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Architecture Visual Resources Collection
Date.Published:
2006
Image.Date:
2004-2006
Collection Information:
Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193
