As usual, I supplied the mystery photo.
“06880” readers identified it.
And one of you added all the details the rest of us never knew.
Last week’s image of a sculpture just to the left of the main entrance to Staples High School – hidden partly behind a stone wall, just outside the art classrooms — was correctly noted by Stephen Moskowitz, Andrew Colabella and Diane Bosch.
But it took Ive Covaci to provide the back story. Ive says:
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. Click here for more information,
Take a look next time you pass by Staples or online here,
(Photo/Bob Weingarten)
Town Hall?
Westport Library. The library hates these plaques (icky history) and would return them to its storeroom if it thought no one would notice…
Morley is correct. About the location, anyway.
Oh, I’m correct on both counts. Just don’t ask me how I know that.
Wesport library
This bronze plaque, along with another honoring Ebenezer Jesup, is in the Westport Library in the stairwell landing leading to the lower level.
Both plaques were in the original library on Post Road East. They honor two men who played a role in Westport’s history.
When the current building opened, the plaques were prominently relocated to the main stairwell leading to the McManus Room. They were put in storage during the recent renovation and then installed (and hidden) near the rear entrance leading to the library access road.
In October, both plaques were given this more noticeable location. (If you’re interested, there is an explanatory plaque posted adjacent to them.)
I think it hangs in the Westport Library
The Westport library does better a revering and preserving town history than what use to be the Westport Historical Society.
Whether they’re plugging an awful cookbook or another polarized guilt trip half true story, it’s ridiculous.
You mean when the new Historic Society sold out the name of the Ralph & Betty Sheffer room?
https://06880danwoog.com/2020/01/13/westport-history-museum-removes-historic-name/amp/