{"id":4369,"date":"2014-12-11T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2014-12-16T12:53:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:53:57","slug":"a-public-art-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/a-public-art-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"A Public Art Mystery (part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for the commemoration of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/rock50\/\">50th year<\/a>, Digital Production Services facilitated the digitization of a collection of photographs documenting the construction and opening of the Library. As I was producing metadata for one of the images, I paused&#8230;What was this? I&#8217;m pretty familiar with the public art on the Brown University campus, but this was a work I had never seen. I checked the University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/about\/public-art\/\">Public Art<\/a> website&#8230;nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Perplexing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4370\" style=\"width: 1112px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/imbr00000004528md_reduced.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4370\" class=\"wp-image-4370 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/imbr00000004528md_reduced.jpg\" alt=\"imbr00000004528md_reduced\" width=\"1102\" height=\"1500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two students consider a piece of public art at the entrance to the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, c.1964-69.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The number &#8220;3&#8221; is legible on the right side of the center panel of the piece &#8211; and before it, I imagine I see the ghost of a &#8220;6&#8221;. Was the piece perhaps created in &#8217;63, for the Library&#8217;s opening in November of &#8217;64? Was this piece of art on the steps to the Rock fifty years ago today, as a temporary installation?\u00a0 Who created the sculpture and where is it now?<\/p>\n<p>With many questions, and little information, I create an unsatisfactory description for the cataloging record. By crowdsourcing this mystery, perhaps the description will blossom with greater accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for the commemoration of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library&#8217;s 50th year, Digital Production Services facilitated the digitization of a collection of photographs documenting the construction and opening of the Library. As I was producing metadata for one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/a-public-art-mystery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[176,177,174],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-images-of-brown","tag-1960s","tag-john-d-rockefeller-jr-library","tag-public-art","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4397,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}