We just learned about the S, Metal by John Chamberlain.
Another famous American sculpture is Throwback by Tony Smith in 1979 in Washington DC.
Smith was born in 1912 in New Jersey, and was very sick as a child.
He grew up during the depresson, and went to an art school in New York while he was growing up.
Later on in life he worked as an architect and an art teacher in college.
He was known for making what was called Minimalist art, which was artwork that was very simple looking, but was still very interesting.
For his sculpture called Throwback, it was a 7 foot by 11 foot sculpture made of aluminum that was welded together.
The pieces were all at different angles so they made a sort of squarish ring with a lot of edges.
Smith really liked geometry, which is how shapes look and work together, so this sculpture that had a lot of different rectangle type shapes connected to each other in interesting ways.
(from: wikipedia - )
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