Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest after Chicago, and the third-most populous U.S. state capital. Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County; it also extends into Delaware and Fairfield counties. It is the core city of the Columbus metropolitan area, which encompasses 10 counties in central Ohio. It had a population of 2,138,926 in 2020, making it the largest metropolitan entirely in Ohio and 32nd-largest city in the U.S.
The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio. The museum collects and exhibits American and European modern and contemporary art, folk art, glass art, and photography. The museum has been led by Executive Director Nannette Maciejunes since 2003.
Kenneth Duane Snelson was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works are composed of flexible and rigid components arranged according to the idea of 'tensegrity'. Snelson preferred the descriptive term floating compression.
Clement Meadmore was an Australian-American sculptor known for massive outdoor steel sculptures.
Hermon Atkins MacNeil was an American sculptor born in Everett, Massachusetts. He is known for designing the Standing Liberty quarter, struck by the Mint from 1916-1930; and for sculpting Justice, the Guardian of Liberty on the east pediment of the United States Supreme Court building.
Large Arch is an outdoor sculpture by British sculptor Henry Moore. It was installed in 1971 and is located in the outdoor plaza of the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library in Columbus, Indiana. Xenia and J. Irwin Miller commissioned the sculpture and gave it to the library. The sculpture is nearly 20 feet tall and is made of sandcast bronze that has been patinated.
Three Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975 is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, catalogued as LH 655. It is approximately 4.7m long. Seven casts and an artists proof were made. Three publicly exhibited casts are situated in the Sodra Kungsgatan in Gävle, Sweden, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA, and at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire.
The Mountain is a monumental sculpture by the French artist Aristide Maillol. Dina Vierny, the artist's longtime collaborator, served as a model for the sculpture.
Breaker is an outdoor sculpture by David Evans Black, installed on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
To Honor the Immigrants is an outdoor 1991–1992 bronze sculpture by Gary Ross, installed at Columbus, Ohio's Battelle Riverfront Park, in the United States.
Hare on Ball and Claw is a 1989–1990 bronze sculpture by Barry Flanagan, installed outside the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The sculpture, installed in 1997, measures approximately 132 x 48 x 36 inches and rests on a base that measures approximately 32 x 43 x 45.5 in.
Peter Pan is a 1927 fountain and sculpture depicting Pan by sculptor Mary "Mae" Cook and architect Otto C. Darst, installed outside the Main Library in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Wasahaban is a 1978 painted aluminum sculpture by Robert Murray, installed outside the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The abstract artwork, painted blue-green, is 7 ft., 6 in. tall and 6 ft. wide. It was fabricated by Lippincott, Inc., and acquired by the museum in 1979 with funds provided by the Hattie W. and Robert Lazarus Fund of The Columbus Foundation, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts.
Celebration of Life, also known as the Arthur Boke/Sarah Sullivan statue, is a 2004 bronze sculpture by Alfred Tibor, installed near Franklinton's Genoa Park, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The artwork depicts a woman holding a baby above her head, and commemorates Arthur Boke, the first known black child born in Franklinton, and Sarah Sullivant, the wife of Lucas Sullivant. The Sullivants, a white couple, raised Boke as their own child.
The Family of Man: Figure 2, Ancestor II, or simply Ancestor II, is a 1970 bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, installed outside the Columbus Museum of Art, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The approximately 8-foot (2.4 m) sculpture has four cubes stacked on top of one another. The Smithsonian Institution describes the artwork as abstract and allegorical, representing family. It was gifted by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company to commemorate the museum's 125th anniversary.
Out of There is a 1974 aluminum sculpture by Clement Meadmore.
ART, also known as Big Red Art, is a 1999 steel sculpture by Doris Shlayn, installed outside the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio, United States. It was installed on June 23, 2001.
Two Lines Up Excentric Variation VI is a 1977 stainless steel sculpture by George Rickey, installed outside the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The abstract, kinetic sculpture was donated by the family of the Albert Fullerton Miller.
