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Title	That Profile
View	Arrival Plaza, view looking northwest towards That Profile
Work Type	visual works sculpture (visual work)
Style/Period	Twentieth century
Creator Name	Puryear, Martin, 1941-
Creator Nationality	American
Date.Creator Birth	1941
Contributors to Project	Martin Puryear (American sculptor, born 1941)
Subject.work	abstraction contemporary (1960 to present) nonrepresentational art
Country	United States
City	Los Angeles
State/Province	California
Architectural Material	Stainless steel, bronze
Technique	metalworking
Dates	1999 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	7/17/2007
Subject Information	Martin Puryear's sculpture rises on six slender legs to a height of forty-five feet above the broad expanse of travertine pavement on the arrival plaza at the Getty Center. Stout strands of silver-patinated bronze bind the joints of the airy network of welded, sandblasted stainless steel tubes, two and three inches in diameter. That Profile was commissioned by the Getty.
Information.source	The Getty [website]; http://www.getty.edu/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)