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| Angola | |
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 The sculpture in 2019 | |
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| Artist | Isaac Witkin |
| Year | 1968 |
| Medium | Cor-ten steel sculpture |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 42°21′31.72″N71°5′21.55″W / 42.3588111°N 71.0893194°W | |
Angola is a 1968 Cor-ten steel sculpture by Isaac Witkin, installed on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. [1] [2]
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