Sollemnis I
Artist
Anne Cooper
born 1945, Victoria, Texas; lives Los Ranchos NM
Date2001
Mediumbronze, wood, metal, seeds, paint
Dimensionsopen: 10 1/2 × 21 × 3 in. (26.7 × 53.3 × 7.6 cm)
closed: 10 1/2 × 10 3/8 × 4 in. (26.7 × 26.4 × 10.2 cm)
closed: 10 1/2 × 10 3/8 × 4 in. (26.7 × 26.4 × 10.2 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1997 General Obligation Bonds
Object numberPC2001.72.1
Description"Sollemnis I-XIV" In Latin, "Sollemnis" means "yearly" and "solemn." Artist Anne Cooper She commemorates annual and long term variation in our sensitive environment. Many of the shrine-like boxes protect endangered plants of the Rio Grande valley, casting the delicate seeds of indigenous and introduced plant species in bronze. On View
Not on viewTerms
ca. 1950
ca. 1978
