Publicly accessible sculptures, murals, and installations on the Stanford campus
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The five 9-foot-high murals that were created to enliven the lobby of School of Education illustrate the school’s programmatic themes, such as the arts and sciences in education.
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The bronze sculpture by Nathan Oliveira entitled Universal Woman seems to depict a woman inflicted with an incurable disease, whose gesture represents an entreaty for care and support.
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Sculptor Roger Barr created The Sculptor’s Eye, a 4-foot-high, oval-shaped structure that resembles an eye, as a tribute to the Swiss sculptor-painter Alberto Giacometti, who died in 1966.
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23rd Avenue in northwest Portland, Oregon is an old commercial thoroughfare. Many of the structures along it have managed to survive since the 19th century.
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Jane Lathrop Stanford commissioned the Angel of Grief in 1900 as a memorial for one of her brothers, Henry Clay Lathrop, after choosing the design from a photograph.
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Stanford’s Angelo “Hank” Luisetti (1916–2002) revolutionized basketball in the 1930s by popularizing the running one-handed shot in an era when everyone was taking two-handed, flat-footed shots.
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The Bedford Sentinels consists of three columns that together impart powerful and contemplative qualities reminiscent of ceremonial and ritual objects.
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Big Ram Skull and Horn, January speaks of the vitality of life forces both biomorphic and organic.
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Nuu-chah-nulth artist Art Thompson created the Boo-Qwilla totem pole in the Northwest coastal art tradition of displaying history and status of families.
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Auguste Rodin’s Burghers of Calais recounts an event that occurred during the Hundred Years War, when England held the port town of Calais under siege.
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In its sensitive depiction of a young woman’s departure from a previous home, and perhaps from a previous life, Early Flight exudes all the tumultuous raw emotions of a break-up.
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Chicago Triangles illustrates Charles Ginnever’s use of repetition and seriality to express how the sculpture can both reveal and conceal itself depending on the spectator’s viewpoint and time of day.
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