La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)

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La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)
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The sculpture in McDermott Court, 2008
La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)
Artist Alexander Calder
Year1965 (1965)
MediumSteel sculpture
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates 42°21′35″N71°05′20″W / 42.359734°N 71.088975°W / 42.359734; -71.088975

La Grande Voile (The Big Sail), sometimes translated The Great Sail, [1] is a 1965 painted steel sculpture by Alexander Calder, [2] installed in McDermott Court on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. [3] [4] [5] [6]

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  1. ↑ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (August 22, 2013). Public Art at MIT . Retrieved October 14, 2024– via YouTube.
  2. ↑ "The Big Sail, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on March 27, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ "La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)". MIT List Visual Arts Center. January 27, 2014. Archived from the original on October 5, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ SM '04, Katherine Bourzac. "Is It Art?". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ Shrock, Robert Rakes (September 23, 1982). Geology at MIT 1865-1965: A History of the First Hundred Years of Geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Department Operations and Projects. MIT Press. ISBN   9780262192118. Archived from the original on August 28, 2021. Retrieved November 19, 2019– via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "10 of the best college art collections - Boston.com". archive.boston.com. Archived from the original on March 21, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2019.


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