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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, United States)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1990-1993 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorLin, Maya Yingen_US
dc.date1990-1993en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-05T14:39:59Z
dc.date.available2013-12-05T14:39:59Z
dc.date.issued1990-1993en_US
dc.identifier240715en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2894en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/148955
dc.descriptionOverall view looking northeast (entrance to the underground undergraduate library to the right); The most visible sign of the commemoration of women at Yale, the Women’s Table was designed by Maya Lin (Yale graduate, BA 1981, M.Arch 1986). Commissioned in 1989 by President Benno Schmidt for the 20th anniversary of the coeducation of Yale College, Lin chose to mark the presence and absence of registered female students since the inception of Yale in 1701. A spiral of numbers engraved on the top, starting from the water source, pairs zeros with the date of the first women students and women's enrollment numbers. When the initial research was done for the sculpture, 1873 was thought to mark the date of the first women students at the School of the Fine Arts. It is now known that the Silliman sisters registered for that school when it opened in 1869. The numbers end in 1993 when the sculpture was completed. Source: Yale University [website]; http://www.yale.edu/ (accessed 4/19/2013)en_US
dc.format.mediumgreen granite; black graniteen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectabstractionen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjecttypography or calligraphyen_US
dc.subjectWomen--Educationen_US
dc.subjectYale Universityen_US
dc.subjectepigraphyen_US
dc.subjectnumbersen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleWomen's Tableen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-LMA-WT-A02en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling), carving (processes)en_US
vra.worktypefountainen_US
vra.worktypesculpture (visual work)en_US
vra.worktypemonumenten_US
dc.contributor.displayMaya Ying Lin (American architect, born 1959)en_US


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