MARSH BIRDS RISING - 2003

Three bronze, life-sized, marsh birds rise from a slender rectangular pedestal. Their ascent trajectories are visibilized by curving sheets of bronze, which indicate “freedom and movement through abstraction.” This, wrote Van Sant, is what Marsh Birds represents. [1] 

  • The Peter & Mary Muth Interpretive Center

    Newport Bay Conservancy, Newport Beach, CA 92658

  • 2003

  • Ron Yeo FAIA.

  • Bronze.

  • 7 ft. tall

  • Unknown

  • Newport Bay Conservancy.

  • Unknown. (The building still stands, but no longer houses REIU, Local 770. )

  • Marsh Birds Rising c. 2008, front and rear views. Photographer unknown. TVS digital records.

  • “Cast bronze has its own special quality, capable of openness, great detail, and the symbolic representation of permanence.  Marsh Birds Rising at the Muth Interpretive Center, represents freedom and movement through abstraction." [2]

    [1] Tom Van Sant, Tom Van Sant-Artist Statement.docx, June 19, 2013, TVS digital record.  

    [2] Tom Van Sant, Tom Van Sant-Artist Statement.docx, June 19, 2013, TVS digital record.

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