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Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden - UCLA
245 Circle Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

Memorial Day weekend, Saturday – a thick marine layer means heavy fog at dawn that gradually thins and may burn off by late afternoon, or not.  Cool all day.  Still air.  Not a day for the beach.  The center of Hollywood and the Sunset Strip? Crowded with tourists, wondering where the sun went, hoping to bump into a movie or television star, or someone famous, so the day is not lost.  Not likely.  A day to slow down and find someplace quiet.  This place, just off Sunset Boulevard, will do.

 

Lynn Chadwick. Encounter VIII, 1957

Lynn Chadwick. Encounter VIII, 1957

Alexander Calder. Button Flower, 1959

Alexander Calder. Button Flower, 1959

Robert Graham. Dance Columns I and II, 1978 (this is II, I guess)

Robert Graham. Dance Columns I and II, 1978

Gaston Lachaise. Standing Woman, 1932

Gaston Lachaise. Standing Woman, 1932

Gerhard Marcks. Maja, 1941

Gerhard Marcks. Maja, 1941

Gerhard Marcks. Maja, 1941

Dimitri Hadzi. Elmo III, 1960

Dimitri Hadzi. Elmo III, 1960

Sorel Etrog. War Remembrance, 1960-61

Sorel Etrog. War Remembrance, 1960-61

Jack Zajac. Bound Goat, Wednesday, 1973

Jack Zajac. Bound Goat, Wednesday, 1973

Jean (Hans) Arp. Ptolemy III, 1961

Jean (Hans) Arp. Ptolemy III, 1961

Jean (Hans) Arp. Ptolemy III, 1961

Jean (Hans) Arp. Ptolemy III, 1961

Jean (Hans) Arp. Ptolemy III, 1961

Fletcher Benton. Dynamic Rhythms Orange (Phase III), 1976

Fletcher Benton. Dynamic Rhythms Orange

Currently on display -

 

Oliver Andrews. Architectural Sculpture,1966
Alexander Archipenko. Queen of Sheba, 1961
Jean (Hans) Arp. Fruit hybride dit la Pagode (Hybrid Fruit Called Pagoda), 1934, cast after 1949
Jean (Hans) Arp. Ptolemy III, 1961
Leonard Baskin. Prophet: Homage to Rico Lebrun, 1971
Fletcher Benton. Dynamic Rhythms Orange (Phase III), 1976
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle. Head of France, 1923
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle. Noble Burdens, 1910
Alberto Burri. Grande Cretto Nero, 1976-77
Deborah Butterfield. Pensive, 1996
Alexander Calder. Button Flower, 1959
Anthony Caro. Halfway, 1971
Aldo Casanova. Artemis of Ephesus, 1964-66
Lynn Chadwick. Encounter VIII, 1957
Leo Cherne. Ralph Bunche, 1958
Pietro Consagra. Difficult Dialogue, 1959
Sorel Etrog. Mother and Child, 1962-64
Sorel Etrog. War Remembrance, 1960-61
Claire Falkenstein. Point as a Set, No. 25, 1970
Eric Gill. Mulier, c. 1913
Robert Graham. Dance Columns I and II, 1978
Dimitri Hadzi. Elmo III, 1960
Dimitri Hadzi. Elmo V, 1959-61
Barbara Hepworth. Elegy III, 1966
Barbara Hepworth. Oval Form, 1962-63 (temporarily removed for conservation)
Richard Hunt. Why? 1974
Gaston Lachaise. Standing Woman, 1932
Henri Laurens. Autumn, 1948
Jacques Lipchitz. The Bather, 1923-25
Jacques Lipchitz. Song of the Vowels, 1931-32
Anna Mahler. Night, 1963
Anna Mahler. Tower of Masks, 1961 (currently not on view)
Aristide Maillol. Heroic Head, 1923
Aristide Maillol. Torso, c. 1938
Gerhard Marcks. Freya, 1950
Gerhard Marcks. Maja, 1941
Henri Matisse. Bas Relief I, 1909
Henri Matisse. Bas Relief II, 1913
Henri Matisse. Bas Relief III, 1916-17
Henri Matisse. Bas Relief IV, 1930
Joan Miro. Mère Ubu, 1975
Henry Moore. Two-Piece Reclining Figure, No. 3, 1961
Robert Müller. Altar, 1962-4
Reuben Nakian. La Chambre à coucher de l'Empereur, 1954
Isamu Noguchi. Garden Elements, 1962
George Rickey. Two Lines Oblique Down (Variation III), 1970-74
Giorgio Amelio Roccamont. Abstraction, 1963
Auguste Rodin. The Walking Man, 1905
Tony (Bernard) Rosenthal. Abstract Plaque, 1964
David Smith. Cubi XX, 1964
Francesco Somaini. Vertical-Absalom, 1959
Elden Tefft. Franklin D. Murphy, 1960
George Tsutakawa. Obos 69, 1969
William Tucker. Untitled, 1967
William Turnbull. Column, 1970
Vladas Vildziunas. The Bird Goddess, 1977
Peter Voulkos. Gallas Rock, 1960
Peter Voulkos. Soleares, c. 1959
Jack Zajac. Bound Goat, Wednesday, 1973
Jack Zajac. Ram Head with Broken Horn, VI, 1963
William Zorach. Victory, 1950
Francisco Zuñiga. Mother with Child at her Hip, 1979
Francisco Zuñiga. Reclining Nude, 1970



 

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