Stepped Arch, 1982
Linda Howard
Chicago Fire Department
Station 15
4625 North Milwaukee
Avenue
A 17-foot high sculpture made of square, brushed aluminum
tubing, Stepped Arch was commissioned
under Chicago’s percent-for-art program. Working somewhere between the
innovative approach to metal sculpture associated with David Smith and the
spare forms of Minimal art, Linda Howard (born 1934) has created a piece that
also harkens back to the pointed arches of Gothic architecture.
A gently
curving form composed of straight lines and an imposing portal that seems to
disappear in the reflected light when viewed at a certain angle, this piece
demonstrates Howard’s interest in looking for “connections between opposites
and distinctions between similarities."
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