Sun God
Saint-Phalle, Niki de
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Alternative Title
Sun God at UCSD
Date
1983Description
Detail, body of the bird with sun motif; De Saint Phalle's Sun God was the first work commissioned by the Stuart Collection and was her first outdoor commission in America. The exuberantly colored, fourteen-foot fiberglass bird is placed atop a fifteen-foot concrete arch and sited on a grassy area between the Faculty Club and Mandeville Auditorium on the eastern periphery of the John Muir College campus (one of the residential colleges of the university). Source: Niki Charitable Art Foundation; http://nikidesaintphalle.org/ (accessed 8/1/2012)
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work)Subject
animal, landscape, literary or legendary, Sun Rising and setting, public art, public sculpture, Twentieth century
Rights
Rights Statement
Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only