Dome

Detail, head of the bird, brightly painted, crest in gold; 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)