Axeltree

{{Short description|Public art work by Alexander Liberman}}

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| title = Axeltree

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| artist = Alexander Liberman

| year = 1967

| medium = Steel

| movement = Abstract

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| height_imperial = 74

| width_imperial = 144

| length_imperial = 110

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| city = Milwaukee, Wisconsin

| museum = Lynden Sculpture Garden

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| owner = Bradley Family Foundation

| website = https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/collection/axeltree

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Axeltree is a public art work by Russian-American artist Alexander Liberman located at the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.{{cite web | author=Bradley Family Foundation | year=2012 | title=Axeltree (sculpture) | work=Inventory of American Sculpture | publisher=Smithsonian Institution | url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1355BC14I7094.709&menu=search&aspect=Keyword&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=&term=&index=.GW&x=0&y=0&aspect=Keyword&term=liberman&index=.AW&term=axeltree&index=.TW&term=&index=.SW&term=&index=.FW&term=&index=.OW&term=&index=.NW | access-date=12 December 2012}} The sculpture is an abstract form; it is installed on the lawn.{{cite web |title=Axeltree |url=https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/collection/axeltree |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505043330/https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/collection/axeltree |archive-date=May 5, 2016 |access-date=12 December 2012 |website=Lynden Sculpture Garden |publisher=Lynden Sculpture Garden}}

Description

Axeltree is a steel sculpture painted red-orange. The statue is 84 in x 144 in x 110 in.

The sculpture is made up of a large flat disk on its side connected to a wide tube base. A smaller concave disk is set perpendicular to the larger disk and is connected to the base by a narrow, curved tube. A jagged tube protrudes from the tube that connects the smaller disk and extends to the other side of the base.

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