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.
Clement Meadmore was an Australian-American sculptor known for massive outdoor steel sculptures.
Richard Harned is an American contemporary kinetic sculptor and glass artist. Harned trained under Dale Chihuly in the 1970s at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with other artists of the American Glass Movement, including Bruce Chao and Tom Kreager. In 1974, he established the Abstract Glass studio in Providence, Rhode Island. After graduating from and teaching at RISD, he also taught glass art at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro and the University of Tennessee. He joined the faculty of Ohio State University in 1982.
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.
Christopher Columbus, or simply Columbus, is a 1955 sculpture by Edoardo Alfieri, originally installed outside Columbus, Ohio's City Hall, in the United States. The statue was unveiled in 1955, celebrating Christopher Columbus's voyages to the New World. It was removed in July 2020, in light of the explorer's abusive relationship with indigenous Americans.
Correlation: Two White Line Diagonals and Two Arcs with a Sixteen-Foot Radius, also known as Correlations, is a 1977–1978 by Robert Mangold, installed on the exterior of the Bricker Federal Building in Downtown Columbus, Ohio.
Their Spirits Circle the Earth, also known as Challenger Memorial, is an outdoor memorial and sculpture commemorating victims of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster by Jim Mason, installed in Columbus, Ohio's Battelle Riverfront Park, in the United States.
Breaker is an outdoor sculpture by David Evans Black, installed on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Celebration for a Champion is an outdoor bronze sculpture commemorating Jesse Owens' achievements by Curtis Patterson, installed on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
A statue of Lucas Sullivant by Michael Foley is installed in Columbus, Ohio's Genoa Park, in the United States. The sculpture was commissioned by the Franklinton Historical Society in 2000, and unveiled on May 6. The plinth depicts scenes from Franklinton's origins.
Scioto Lounge, or the Scioto Lounge deer sculptures, is a series of three bronze sculptures depicting anthropomorphic deer by Terry Allen, installed in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Two of the sculptures are installed in Genoa Park, and a third is installed on the Rich Street Bridge. The pieces were installed in 2014.
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.
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.
Intermediate Model for the Arch is a 1975 painted steel sculpture by Alexander Calder, installed in a courtyard outside the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The artwork measures 144 in. x 129 in. x 101 in. and was purchased by the Derby Fund. The abstract black sculpture is 11 feet (3.4 m) tall.
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.
