Float (sculpture)

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Float

Artist	Peter Flanary
Year	1990 (1990)
Dimensions	460 cm × 89 cm × 190 cm (180 in × 35 in × 75 in)
Location	Milwaukee
Coordinates	43°04′45″N 87°52′57.21″W / 43.07917°N 87.8825583°W / 43.07917; -87.8825583

Float is a public artwork by American artist Peter Flanary^[1] located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in front of Sandburg Hall,^[2] which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

Description

The sculpture is nestled into a deep ravine and takes advantage of the lay of the land. Flanary has said that before creating any sculpture, "I go to the desired location where the sculpture will be built and just sketch." (Phone interview with Peter Flanary December 4 2pm). "Float" plays with the weight of materials and combines a bronze structure of a canoe with the heavy granite stone. The piece is approximately 15 feet high and barely rises to the level of the sidewalk leading to Sandburg Hall.^[3]

Float was purchased with $25,000 that was set aside for artwork during the building of Sandburg Hall. The artist originally meant for the piece to feature a cart with an anvil on top and a star reigning over. Sandburg Hall's architect thought that this design demonstrated a communist ideal and forced Flanary to come up with something else.^{[citation needed]}

Float is currently property of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and all applicable students.

Artist

Peter Flanary grew up in the Milwaukee area, and currently has a studio in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.^[1] Peter Flanary created Float in his studio.^[1] He was a part-time lecturer in the art department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison^[4] His work frequently incorporates rocks and other environmental objects. His creation process is rarely direct. "He tries to grasp the space in its complexity and wants to create something that can be remarked on by people."^[4] "He likes material and form and works to have his piece support and work in its environment, growing out of, rather than intruding into the landscape."^[4]

Flanary's work is all over Wisconsin, including three pieces at the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://peterflanary.com/Welcome.html
↑ http://www4.uwm.edu
↑ http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Peter.Flanary.Studio.608-987-460
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 , UW Madison.

v t e Milwaukee Public Art

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North Side	Celebrating the Arts Christian Wahl Elk On Watch Pattern Lapham Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. here, mothers are... Music Fishing Spirit of the Firefighter Dauntless Guardian Buildings 1992 Gear 23 All in the Air at Once First Flight Sea of the Ear Kindred Ties

East Side	Cleopatra's Wedge Float Polyphony Boy with Goose Eight Stone Lions Three Bronze Discs Holocaust Memorial Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology Blue Dress Park Sentinels Hermes Milwaukee Eclipse 'X' Intertwining Compass Erastus B. Wolcott Sharing the Load Robert Burns Near Here Compass Walk Like a River Spillover II Tip Jantar-Mantar Cass Street Park Brady Street Beasts Connect Fairies Candles

South Side	Menomonee Count Casimir Pulaski Spirit of Commerce Bay View Series A Place to Sit Stratiformis The Hill Climber Deflected Jets Angel in a Cage R.D. Whitehead Monument Memorial for Belle Austin Jacobs T.A. Chapman Memorial Nature Belle Oops, Missed Space Game Engine Company No. 10 William A. Starke Memorial Steel Reborn Red Flower Rising General Thaddeus Kosciuszko Patrick Cudahy Memorial SOARING Two Opposites Reaching Up Toward the Peak of Progress Edge Elements Ribbons VI Bridge Stone Bracelet Untitled Quartet) Tending the Fire Bird and Fish The Sower The Reaper Giving Gifts

West Side	Henry Bergh Goethe–Schiller Monument Chrysalis The Ideal Scout Uptown Triangles Tree of Life Magic Grove Steuben Monument Kneeling Camels Teamwork Aaron Monument Yount Monument Selig Monument Uecker Monument Fire and Water Vliet Street Commons Miller Valley Veterans Monument Children of the West End

Lynden Sculpture Garden	Sinai Wandering Rocks Sea Form (Atlantic) Sky Fence Floating Sculpture No. 3 Mo, Ni, Que Trio Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9 Way Four Compound Junior Salem No. 7 Bremen Town Musicians Ancestor Queen of Sheba Rhythm in Space Peristyle, Three Lines Orizzontale Embrace Ursa Major Three Graces Large Torso, Arch Double Up Upstart The Lovers Poland Axeltree Orbits Ritual II Hara Olympus The Lovers Tensione No. 2 The Source Rainbow Unfolding Vegetative Sculpture I Round About Lodgepole Twist for Max Bench-Stone Windfall Knife Tree Conversations with Magic Stones, Figure Three Conversations with Magic Stones (Magic Stone Three) Kumo Untitled Arch Epicenter Epicenter II III Columns Flight Pin Oak I

Mobile Projects	Overpass Light Brigade

Overview	List of public art in Milwaukee

v t e University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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Athletics	Milwaukee Panthers Horizon League Engelmann Field J. Martin Klotsche Center Henry Aaron Field

Public Art	Lapham Memorial Three Bronze Discs Milwaukee Polyphony Float Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology Jantar-Mantar Pangaea

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Float (sculpture)

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Artist

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