Axeltree | |
Artist: | Alexander Liberman |
Year: | 1967 |
Medium: | Steel |
Movement: | Abstract |
Height Imperial: | 74 |
Width Imperial: | 144 |
Length Imperial: | 110 |
Imperial Unit: | in |
Metric Unit: | cm |
City: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Museum: | Lynden Sculpture Garden |
Coordinates: | 43.1759°N -87.9379°W |
Owner: | Bradley Family Foundation |
Website: | https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/collection/axeltree |
Axeltree is a public art work by Russian-American artist Alexander Liberman located at the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[1] The sculpture is an abstract form; it is installed on the lawn.[2]
Axeltree is a steel sculpture painted red-orange. The statue is 84 in x 144 in x 110 in.
The sculpture is made up of a large flat disk on its side connected to a wide tube base. A smaller concave disk is set perpendicular to the larger disk and is connected to the base by a narrow, curved tube. A jagged tube protrudes from the tube that connects the smaller disk and extends to the other side of the base.