The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
"Personage and Birds," by the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró, stands out...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's whimsical "Plantoir" ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
British artist Gary Hume's two statues, identical in dimensions, in De...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Shotgun houses included in a public-art project called Project Row Hou...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara combined child and dog figures into a s...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
The "Oculus" domed performance pavilion in Council Bluffs, Iowa's, Bay...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This public-art feature and the nearby "Wellspring" fountain were created by Brower Hatcher and installed in 2007. Credit line: Photog... More
Passerby at a mural in San Antonio, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Artist Christiane T. Martens's "Spectral Liberation" statue at the Gre...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
One of six "touchable art" black squirrel statues created by Brower Ha...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
"Helmholtz," is one of the most prized works of art in the Fort Wayne,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculpture honors physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, who specialized in magnetic-field research. Credit line: Photographs in the Caro... More
Some of the 21 individual elements in Japanese artist Jun Kaneko's 22,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The groupings include brightly colored "dangos," as Kaneko called them, after a form of Japanese dumplings often served on a stick. Cr... More
Houston artists in front of Project Row House, a public-art project in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's 2014 "The Soul of Words I & II" sculptur...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's "Nomade" sculpture in Des Moines, Iowa's...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It's an open piece, inviting people to enter it, like a grandmother embracing her children, Plensa explained. Letters, like living cel... More
Artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's whimsical "Plantoir" ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
A sculpture of two people sitting on a bench This sculpture by artist ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Part of the "Human Landscape" exhibition of works by Spanish artist Ja...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The exhibit includes heated outdoor sculptures, plus indoor installations that include a stainless-steel curtain through which visitor... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Communities across America have adopted particular themes of public ar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Decorated cows or rainbows or frogs, for instance. Here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it's human couples of various sorts, roughly modeled af... More
Statue in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Passersby at a mural in San Antonio, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The "Wellspring" fountain in Council Bluffs, Iowa's, Bayliss Park
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This public-art feature and the nearby "Oculus" domed performance pavilion were created by Brower Hatcher and installed in 2007. Credi... More
The "Sing the Queen City" three-dimensional, painted aluminum sculptur...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculpture, by Tommy Sheehan, features the words "Sing the Queen City," a line from the last stanza of the poem "Seven Hills and a ... More
On this mural at an "El" station on Chicago, Illinois' East 55th Stree...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Artist Omri Amrany's sculpture, "The Fusion," installed in 2006 to mar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Stick-figure in Motion public art in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Public art in Chicago, Illinois, including the city's most famous scul...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Many U.S. cities have adopted one animal or another as a theme for muc...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Harvest Time, artist Brad Godell's 2011 mural in Cortez, Colorado, sug...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mural depicts the gathering of peaches, a delicacy so renowned in the Montezuma County area that they won a gold medal at the 1904... More
"Personage and Birds," by the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró, stands out...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Passersby at a mural in San Antonio, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Young Virginia Beach enthusiast at one of the beach community's many p...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Fire hydrant public art in front of the Fire Museum of Texas in Beaumo...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Artist Chas Fagan's statue of onetime American astronaut Neil Armstron...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Communities across America have adopted particular themes of public ar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Decorated cows or rainbows or frogs, for instance. Here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it's human couples of various sorts, roughly modeled af... More
One of three silicone bronze "Haymarket Rabbits" in Council Bluffs, Io...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Deborah Masuoka's pieces are among many Iowa West Public Art installations across the city. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. H... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Some of the 21 individual elements in Japanese artist Jun Kaneko's 22,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The groupings include brightly colored "dangos," as Kaneko called them, after a form of Japanese dumplings often served on a stick. Cr... More
Artist Kerri S. Bash's sculpture, "Plant a Seed," greets patrons at th...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
"Molecule Man", actually three perforated figures combining to make on...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Jonathan Borofsky's work is one of many Iowa West Public Art pieces across the city. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmit... More
Artist Andrew Scott's stainless steel, 30-foot-long gavel was installe...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building began its life in 1932 as an office building for the fast-expanding state government, after a natural-gas explosion that ... More
The Des Moines Art Center in the state of Iowa's capital city
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
The "Wellspring" fountain in Council Bluffs, Iowa's, Bayliss Park
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This public-art feature and the nearby "Oculus" domed performance pavilion were created by Brower Hatcher and installed in 2007. Credi... More
The "Wellspring" fountain in Council Bluffs, Iowa's, Bayliss Park
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This public-art feature and the nearby "Oculus" domed performance pavilion were created by Brower Hatcher and installed in 2007. Credi... More
A greatly oversized beach chair as art outside Findlay Market, a histo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Historically, Over-the-Rhine is a working-class neighborhood, believed to be the largest, most intact urban historic district in the U... More
The Covered Bridge Art Association has decorated the windows of this M...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Its 31 extant covered bridges are a tourist attraction for the rural county. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archiv... More
One of the 21 individual elements in Japanese artist Jun Kaneko's 22,0...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
The Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio was founded by Toledo glassma...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Out front stands modernist sculptor Alexander Calder's "Stegosaurus" statue. The piece is a smaller version (but close to life-sized f... More
Salisbury House in Des Moines, Iowa, a manor home modeled after the Ki...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built by cosmetic magnate Carl Weeks and his wife, Edith Van Slyke Weeks, between 1923 and 1928, Salisbury House contains 42 rooms. Cr... More
A Council Bluffs, Iowa, landmark, affectionately known locally as "Old...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Two of six "touchable art" black squirrel statues created by Brower Ha...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Sculpture and tiny fountains outside the Toledo-Lucas County Public Li...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
This inglorious sculpture outside the Sioux City Art Center is one of ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It has a fancy, but strange, name, given to it by its creator, Chicago artist John Himmelfarb. It's "Penelope Awaiting Her Chamberlain... More
Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's 2013 "Thoughts" sculpture outside the To...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's "Nomade" sculpture in Des Moines, Iowa's...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It's an open piece, inviting people to enter it, like a grandmother embracing her children, Plensa explained. Letters, like living cel... More
The "Sculpt Siouxland" metal art piece, by Andrew Arvanetes, in downto...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Salisbury House in Des Moines, Iowa, a manor home modeled after the Ki...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built by cosmetic magnate Carl Weeks and his wife, Edith Van Slyke Weeks, between 1923 and 1928, Salisbury House contains 42 rooms. Cr... More
Artist Omri Amrany's sculpture, "The Fusion," installed in 2006 to mar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
"Molecule Man", actually three perforated figures combining to make on...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Jonathan Borofsky's work is one of many Iowa West Public Art pieces across the city. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmit... More
Part of the "Human Landscape" exhibition of works by Spanish artist Ja...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The exhibit includes heated outdoor sculptures, plus indoor installations that include a stainless-steel curtain through which visitor... More
Mark di Suvero's 1980 metal-and-rubber sculpture, "Blubber," outside t...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Patrons are allowed, even encouraged, to clamber on the split tractor tire suspended from the structure of nine painted steel I-beams ... More
Some of the 21 individual elements in Japanese artist Jun Kaneko's 22,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The groupings include brightly colored "dangos," as Kaneko called them, after a form of Japanese dumplings often served on a stick. Cr... More
The "Wellspring" fountain and "Oculus" domed performance pavilion in C...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Both public-art features were created by Brower Hatcher and installed in 2007. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Arch... More
Bright bird figure outside the Cleveland Public Library's main buildin...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The colorful bird is among 378 larger-than-life plastic animal figures placed throughout downtown Cleveland as part of a public-art pr... More
The gilded dome of the Iowa capitol forms a backdrop for artist Michae...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
The Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio was founded by Toledo glassma...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Out front stands modernist sculptor Alexander Calder's "Stegosaurus" statue. The piece is a smaller version (but close to life-sized f... More
Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the "Panoramic awareness pavilio...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The work is composed of 23 panes of partially silvered colored glass, held upright by steel frames and installed in a circle with an o... More
Public art outside a Homewood Suites hotel in Plainfield, Indiana
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
The "Wellspring" fountain and "Oculus" domed performance pavilion in C...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Both public-art features were created by Brower Hatcher and installed in 2007. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Arch... More
The rebuilt and greatly enlarged Purdue Mall Fountain in a plaza on th...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The fountain replaced Loeb Fountain, the iconic landmark at the center of Founders Park, where it served as the centerpiece of the mai... More
"A Veteran's Prayer for Eternal Peace," a bronze sculpture by Christop...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Communities across America have adopted particular themes of public ar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Decorated cows or rainbows or frogs, for instance. Here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it's human couples of various sorts, roughly modeled af... More
Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's "Nomade" sculpture in Des Moines, Iowa's...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It's an open piece, inviting people to enter it, like a grandmother embracing her children, Plensa explained. Letters, like living cel... More