Exhaling Pearls

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'Exhaling Pearls', patinated bronze sculpture by Joseph Havel, 1993, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.JPG
Exhaling Pearls
Artist Joseph Havel
Year1993 (1993)
TypeSculpture
Medium Bronze
Coordinates 29°43′36.1″N95°23′25.9″W / 29.726694°N 95.390528°W / 29.726694; -95.390528

Exhaling Pearls is an outdoor 1993 bronze sculpture by postmodernist American artist Joseph Havel, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, in the U.S. state of Texas. [1]

The sculpture is cast from a rope and two paper lanterns. The museum, who purchased the work with donations from the Nona and Richard Barrett, the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, Max and Isabell Smith Herzstein, Isabel B. Wilson, and friends of Havel, has called the work an "improbable hybrid", "[rising] up in a playfully gallant affirmation of life and creation". [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Joseph Havel, Exhaling Pearls, 1993". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Archived from the original on December 19, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
  2. "Artworks: New Forms". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Archived from the original on December 19, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015.