Gilford Common Ground, (sculpture) | Smithsonian Institution

Object Details

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire survey, 1994.; Image on file.; The Citizen (Laconia, NH), June 15, 1993, pg. 3.; 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: A semi-abstract sculpture comprised of two pieces placed near each other with a space between them to walk through. The larger piece contains a relief of three mountain tops, with a cutout shape of the sun above them. Inset below the mountains are the depressed shapes of a church, a school, a municipal building, and a house. On the opposite side of the larger piece, the cutout sun becomes a moon amidst six five-pointed stars. The smaller piece contains two mountain peaks out of which grow four overlapping fir trees. Depressed in the fir trees are the separate images of a panda and a golden eagle.

1993. Dedicated June 16, 1993

Medium: Reinforced concrete, cast and chiseled, plastic, and mirror materials

Owner/Location: Gilford School District Gilford Elementary School 76 Belknap Mountain Street Gilford New Hampshire 03246

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Topic: Allegory--Place--Gilford; Architecture--Civic; Architecture--Domestic--House; Architecture--Education--Elementary School; Architecture--Education--Gilford Elementary School; Architecture--Religious--Church; Landscape--Mountain; Landscape--Celestial--Sun; Landscape--Celestial--Moon; Landscape--Celestial--Star; Animal--Bear; Animal--Bird--Eagle