The Prince
2025
A large scale steel sculpture painted in vibrant kelly green with yellow and black accents, depicting a stylized amphibian or reptilian creature in profile. The form features a bold, modernist silhouette with a circular eye opening and a prominent angular snout, characteristic of Van Earl's CREATURES series. The sculpture's simplified anatomical features and saturated color palette create a totemic presence that merges playful abstraction with geometric precision. Finished in oil enamel, the work demonstrates Van Earl's signature approach to transforming industrial steel into vivid, creature inspired public art.
- Medium
- oil enamel on steel
- Spotted At
- Studio · Delos Van Earl Studios
Notes
From Delos Van Earl's CREATURES series, oil-enamel-on-steel sculptures of stylized animals and totemic forms. Catalog: https://delosvanearlstudios.com/section/526465-CREATURES.html.
Spotted works by Delos Van Earl
Artists in conversation
Alexander Calder
American · b. 1898
Calder created large scale painted steel sculptures with bold saturated colors including vibrant greens and blacks, using simplified geometric and biomorphic forms with a similarly playful yet totemic presence designed for outdoor public settings.
Luis Jiménez
American · b. 1940
Jiménez worked in large scale sculptural forms with bold saturated color finishes on hard industrial materials, depicting stylized creatures and figures with a vibrant Southwestern palette and a similarly commanding public art presence.
Donald Baechler
American · b. 1956
Baechler repeatedly renders simplified cartoon like animal and creature forms with bold flat color fields and strong black outlines, sharing the same vocabulary of playful abstraction and geometric reduction seen in Van Earl's amphibian silhouette.
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