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Title	Sun God
Alternate Title	Sun God at UCSD
View	Overall view on lawn near auditorium
Work Type	visual works sculpture (visual work)
Style/Period	Twentieth century
Creator Name	Saint-Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002
Creator Nationality	French
Date.Creator Birth	1930
Date.Creator Death	2002
Subject.work	animal landscape literary or legendary Sun Rising and setting public art public sculpture
Country	United States
City	San Diego
State/Province	California
Location.Notes	grassy area between the Faculty Club and Mandeville Auditorium
Architectural Material	painted fiberglass; concrete
Technique	casting (process); construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
Dates	1983 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	3/10/2008
Subject Information	De Saint Phalle's Sun God was the first work commissioned by the Stuart Collection and was her first outdoor commission in America. The exuberantly colored, fourteen-foot fiberglass bird is placed atop a fifteen-foot concrete arch and sited on a grassy area between the Faculty Club and Mandeville Auditorium on the eastern periphery of the John Muir College campus (one of the residential colleges of the university).
Information.source	Niki Charitable Art Foundation; http://nikidesaintphalle.org/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)