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Louise Nevelson — Sky Landscape
Louise Nevelson — Sky Landscape
Louise Nevelson — Sky Landscape
Louise Nevelson

Sky Landscape

1983

Sky Landscape is a monumental 30-foot outdoor sculpture by Louise Nevelson, completed in 1983 on commission from the American Medical Association. Installed at the northeast corner of Vermont Avenue and L Street NW in Washington, D.C., the work comprises two separate black steel assemblages set atop a granite base, composed of sheets and cylinders of varying shapes, lengths, and patterns. The piece reflects Nevelson's signature aesthetic of organized stacking — rooted in her early found-object upcycling practice — translated here into a large-scale architectural steel form. A significant example of late 20th-century American abstract public sculpture by one of its most celebrated practitioners.

Medium
Painted steel (black steel sheets and cylinders)
Dimensions

Notes

Sculpture consists of two separate pieces that stand next to each other to create the overall structure. Set atop a granite base. Total height 30 feet (approximately 914 cm). Featured as a stop on the Abstract Sculptures of DC tour. Building behind the sculpture bears signage reading '3,400 SF Retail For Lease'. Building address visible as 1701.

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Louise Nevelson, Sky Landscape, 1983

Sky Landscape is a monumental 30-foot outdoor sculpture by Louise Nevelson, completed in 1983 on commission from the American Medical Association. Installed at the northeast corner of Vermont Avenue and L Street NW in Washington, D.C., the work comprises two separate black steel assemblages set atop a granite base, composed of sheets and cylinders of varying shapes, lengths, and patterns. The piece reflects Nevelson's signature aesthetic of organized stacking — rooted in her early found-object upcycling practice — translated here into a large-scale architectural steel form. A significant example of late 20th-century American abstract public sculpture by one of its most celebrated practitioners.

Medium
Painted steel (black steel sheets and cylinders)
Year
1983
Seen at
Washington DC

Related themes

Geometric, Monochrome, 20th Century, Blue Chip, American, Public Art, Sculpture, Urban, Modernism, Large Format, Female Artist, Abstract

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