Bronze Crow #2
- Title
- Bronze Crow #2
- LC Subject
- Sculpture Metal sculpture Bronze sculpture Sculptors Birds in art Crow art Crows sculpture (visual work) public sculpture bronze (metal)
- Creator
- Boyden, Frank
- Description
- This roughly formed and unpolished bronze piece depicts a bird atop a stump, frozen in what appears to be the moment before flight. The bird's wings extend upward and outward from its body, and its neck stretches out in front of it. Bronze Crow #2; [no.] 2; (20 x 8 x 20) Frank Boyden was born 1942, in Portland, OR. He attended Yale University, School of Art, achieving a M.F.A. and B.F.A., in Painting, 1968. In 1965, he attended Colorado College, where he received a B.A. in Art. The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
- View
- side
- Location
- The Valley Library >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 121 The Valley Library, Corvallis Oregon
- Date
- 1975/2012
- Identifier
- 1995_osu_valley-library_07_a01
- Accession Number
- 1995_osu_valley-library_07_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Boyden, Frank
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 20 x 8 x 20 inches
- Material
- Sculpture; bronze
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1995 - 1997 Biiennium Valley Library Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon 1995_osu_valley-library
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- I began to feed the crows in a grocery store parking lot with old bread from the store, the birds very close and very active. And I became fascinated with the incredible complexity of their abilities to move and the exaggerated contortions of their bodies as they interacted. During these feedings I often drew and then photographed, shooting randomly into the masses of birds. From these drawings and photographs I produced a large number of dry points. Of these I chose nine pieces to cast in bronze. They are ideas utilizing the salient elements of my sculptures over the past ten years. They are about conquest, about pride. They are a celebration of the power of an animal or person if it is to function and survive. Each is a collection of materials and objects with which a crow interacts. (Boyden, 1995)
