Coordinates: 42°21′35″N 71°05′20″W / 42.359734°N 71.088975°W / 42.359734; -71.088975

La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)

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La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)
The sculpture in McDermott Court, 2008
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ArtistAlexander Calder
Year1965 (1965)
MediumSteel sculpture
LocationCambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates42°21′35″N 71°05′20″W / 42.359734°N 71.088975°W / 42.359734; -71.088975

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

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References

  1. ^ "The Big Sail, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on March 27, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ SM '04, Katherine Bourzac. "Is It Art?". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 2018-11-10. Retrieved 2019-11-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "10 of the best college art collections - Boston.com". archive.boston.com. Archived from the original on 2020-03-21. Retrieved 2019-11-19.

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