BreakFree, (sculpture) | Smithsonian Institution

Object Details

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.; Image on file.; unsigned; The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Summary: Silhouetted figures of a man and woman cut from sections of the Berlin Wall stand before an oversized section of red coiled barbed wire. The west-facing surfaces of the figures are covered in graffiti, applied when the Wall was extant, and the east-facing sides are clean. The sculpture illustrates Freedom from Fear, one of the Four Freedoms in President Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address which were later incorporated into the Atlantic Charter.

Installed Oct. 1993. Dedicated May 14, 1994

Medium: Sculpture: painted concrete and barbed wire, painted red; Base: concrete

Owner/Location: Administered by National Archives and Records Administration 7th & Pennsylvania Avenue Washington District of Columbia; Located Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum 259 Albany Post Road Hyde Park New York 12538

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Topic: Figure group; History--Germany--Berlin Wall; Allegory--Civic--Liberty