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 Persephone Unbound by Beverly Pepper - Seattle, Washington Posted by:  Hikenutty
N 47° 37.020 W 122° 21.348
10T E 548408 N 5273933
This cast bronze sculpture is inspired by Persephone, queen of the underworld.
Waymark Code: WM1HQR
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 05/13/2007
Views: 84
The following is from Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park Website:
For ancient civilizations a well-positioned stone created a connection to the cosmos, and left vital evidence of a human presence. A similar sense of timelessness and gravity is evoked by Beverly Pepper’s monolithic Persephone Unbound. Persephone, Queen of the underworld, was abducted by Hades; when a rescue effort failed Hades fed her a pomegranate and she was bound to the underworld for a third of each year. Persephone Unbound suggests the ideal of freedom, while at the same time embodying the unchanging eternity to which Persephone was subjected.
Born in Brooklyn , New York , Beverly Pepper has exhibited internationally, including one-person shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Ohio’s Columbus Museum of Art, The Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo , and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Since 1951 she has divided her time between homes and studios in New York and Todi , Italy .
Title: Persephone Unbound
Artist: Beverly Pepper
Media (materials) used: Bronze
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Olympic Sculpture Park
Date of creation or placement: Created 1999, Placed 2007
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