Wandering Rocks (2/5)

Wandering Rocks

Artist	Tony Smith (sculptor)
Year	1967 (1967)
Type	Painted steel
Dimensions	(Five units, 23" to 45-1/2" high in)
Location	Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Coordinates	43°10′36.03″N 87°56′12.99″W / 43.1766750°N 87.9369417°W / 43.1766750; -87.9369417
Owner	Lynden Sculpture Garden

Wandering Rocks is a public art work designed by American artist Tony Smith, located at the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The five-part sculpture of rectilinear forms has highly reflective surfaces and is installed on the lawn.^[1]

This is the second of an edition of five in the series (with one artists proof).^[2] While these "rocks" are individual elements they were conceived as a single artwork without fixed spatial relationships to each other.^[3] They have been installed in a variety of ways, each being slightly different.

Other editions of the sculpture are on display at:

Olympic Sculpture Park (AP)
Kykuit (John D. Rockefeller Estate) (1/5)
Private collection, Cleveland, Ohio (3/5)
National Gallery of Art (4/5)
Kröller-Müller Museum (5/5).

References

↑ "Inside/Outside". Wandering Rocks. Lynden Sculpture Garden. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
↑ "The Wondering Rocks". Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
↑ Tony Smith: Not an Object. Not a Monument. Germany: Göttingen : Steidl. 2007. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-3-86521-313-6.

Tony Smith

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Family	Kiki Smith Seton Smith

Wikimedia	Tony Smith in Commons

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Wandering Rocks (2/5)

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