Bronze Crow #5
- Title
- Bronze Crow #5
- 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 with a long beak on a wooden stump, looking upward. Bronze Crow #5; [no.] 5; (22 x 9 x 19) 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_b01
- Accession Number
- 1995_osu_valley-library_07_b01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Boyden, Frank
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 22 x 9 x 19 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)
