There must be a reason an iron fence sits at the top of the Imperial Avenue parking lot driveway.
It doesn’t protect anything — not the nearby Westport Woman’s Club, Remarkable Theater or Farmers’ Market.
It probably predates all of them (maybe not the 115-year-old Woman’s Club).
Only 3 readers — Andrew Colabella, Amy Schneider and Len Peterson — identified the site of last week’s Photo Challenge. (Click here to see.)
And no one added an intriguing back story.
Perhaps this week’s image will be more recognizable. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.
(Photo/Bob Weingarten)
Front side of Staples High School Entrance
Just in time for Thanksgiving…an abstract wooden turkey lawn sculpture.
Staples high school front garden lower floor as you make the left to the Nistico complex
Outside the art wing at Staples High School
All correct (except for Ed). This is hidden a bit below grade, but just to the left of the main entrance to Staples High School.
Thanks, Dan, for featuring this sculpture, part of the Westport Public Art Collections! It is titled “Woman’s Head,” dates to circa 1979-1981, and was created by Joseph Goto (1916-1994).
Born in Hawaii, Goto was of Japanese descent, and studied at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. After WWII, he began sculpting with welded steel, a medium that he was drawn to because of his steel-working experience while serving in the U.S. Army. He taught at University of Michigan, Brandeis, Carnegie-Mellon, and RISD.
Goto writes: “Cutting the steel is like carving, as in the Matisse and Picasso cutouts. It’s not mechanical. It’s not a logical thing that you learn; it comes from long experience…It gives me a good feeling to build things.” http://artasiamerica.org/artist/detail/232
Take a look next time you pass by Staples or online here: https://ctcollections.org/index.php/Detail/objects/34182