Twain Sculpture

Overview for Twain Sculpture in Serra Sculpture Park

Photo by Mark Groth Title: Serra Sculpture Park---Twain Sculpture
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Overview

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Description:

His massive sculptures, which mostly consist of slightly curved plates of steel, tower vertically over the viewer or extend horizontally along the flat landscape, such as in Twain, located on a square patch of grass in downtown St. Louis. Commissioned specifically for the square-block site, Twain resembles a peripheral fence that, when viewed from above, takes the shape of a skewed triangle. The piece is composed of eight plates of weathering Cor-ten steel; seven of the plates are 40 feet long a

Sculptor: Richard Serra

Year Dedicated: 1982