Coal river. Connard Wolfe's sculpting tools. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Visit to the sculpture studio of Connard Wolfe. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chrome bust of Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin in West Hollywo...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The piece, "Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin's Head" by the Chinese artist brothers Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang, is said to have caused an ... 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
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
Coal river. Gravestones carved by Connard Wolfe. Southern West Virgini...
Event: Visit to the sculpture studio of Connard Wolfe. Public domain photograph - grave, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - monument, cemete... 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
Madonna and Child, sculpted by Connard Wolfe, located outside the Kana...
Event: Visit to the sculpture studio of Connard Wolfe. This stone sculpture has been painted brown.
Tiburon Peninsula, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Sculpture information in title from www.sculpturesite.com, 2018. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmi... More
Chrome bust of Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin in West Hollywo...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The piece, "Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin's Head" by the Chinese artist brothers Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang, is said to have caused an ... 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
Sculpture, Hearts in San Francisco public art installation, Union Squa...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Union Square is one of the largest collections of department stores, upscale boutiques, tourist trinket shops, art galleries, and salons in the United Sta... 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
"Flying Monkey" sculptures atop a building on the Burlington, Vermont,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The steel sculptures were created in the 1970s by artist Steve Larrabee to expand upon the Wizard of Oz theme of a now-defunct local w... 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
Sculpture, Hearts in San Francisco public art installation, Union Squa...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Union Square is one of the largest collections of department stores, upscale boutiques, tourist trinket shops, art galleries, and sal... More
Tiburon, California art in the center of the town
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Sculpture information in title from www.sculpturesite.com, 2018. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photograph... 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
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
Raleigh, North Carolina's Big Acorn sculpture, a public-art piece salu...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculpture normally stands at Moore Park but, at the time of this photograph, had been temporarily moved to a location near Municip... 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
John Fleming's "High Desert Spiral" sculpture is one of several pieces...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... 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
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
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
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
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
"The Dreamer" sculpture, by David Phelps, in Palm Desert, California's...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The city owns and displays dozens of pieces of public art. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's A... 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
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
Sculpture, Hearts in San Francisco public art installation, Union Squa...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Union Square is one of the largest collections of department stores, upscale boutiques, tourist trinket shops, art galleries, and salons in the United Sta... 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
"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