Shuttlecocks

Collection The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Commissioned May 1992, by The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Sosland family

Aluminum and fiber-reinforced plastic; painted with polyurethane enamel
Four shuttlecocks, each 17 ft. 11 in. (5. 5 m) high x 15 ft. 1 in. (4.6 m) crown diameter and 4 ft. (1.2 m) nose cone diameter, sited in different positions on the grounds of the museum

Installed June 23-July 1, 1994
Inaugurated July 6, 1994

Photo: Attilio Maranzo




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