Sun God: restoration, 1999: after sanding: detail view
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1983
- Description
Architecture and City Planning
Garden and Landscape
Sculpture and Installations
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 bird is placed atop a fifteen-foot concrete arch and sited on a grassy area between the Faculty Club and Mandeville Auditorium.
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Mandeville Center: University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States
- Creator
Cohen, Becky (American photographer, contemporary)
Saint-Phalle, Niki de (French sculptor, writer, and scenographer, 1930-2002)
- Partner
- California Digital Library
- Contributing Institution
- UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
- Collection
- Stuart Collection Photographs
- Subjects
- Contemporary
Gods
Southwest, New
American
Women artists
Birds
University of California, San Diego--History
Architecture (object genre)
Landscape architecture
Public art
Site-specific works
Installations (visual works)
Caricatures
Sculpture (visual work) - Type
- image
- Format
- Mixed media; concrete; fiberglass; gilding; gold leaf; acrylic paint; 14 feet (height)
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Rights
- Under copyright
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- Chicago citation style
- Cohen, Becky (American photographer, contemporary), Saint-Phalle, Niki de (French sculptor, writer, and scenographer, 1930-2002). Sun God: restoration, 1999: after sanding: detail view. 1983. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb75101760. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Cohen, Becky (American photographer, contemporary), Saint-Phalle, Niki de (French sculptor, writer, and scenographer, 1930-2002), (1983) Sun God: restoration, 1999: after sanding: detail view. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb75101760
- MLA citation style
- Cohen, Becky (American photographer, contemporary), Saint-Phalle, Niki de (French sculptor, writer, and scenographer, 1930-2002). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb75101760>.