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Artist/Creator (1)	Moore, Henry (1898-1986)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	British (English)
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist, sculptor
Artist/Creator (2)	unknown German founder
Artist/Creator (2).Nationality	German (West Berlin)
Artist/Creator (2).Role	foundry
Title/Caption	Nuclear Energy
Date of Work	1967. Dedicated December 2, 1967.
Description of View	View of plaza and artwork
Notes	Located University of Chicago, South Ellis Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets, Chicago, IL. Sponsor/Developer: Purchased from Henry Moore by the B.G. Ferguson Monument Fund Project Description: This work commemorates the first self-sustained controlled nuclear reaction on December 2, 1942. It is situated on the spot where the Manhattan Project team invented the first nuclear reactor. The square plaza upon which the sculpture now rests was designed by the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The sculpture is 12 feet tall, and has the abstracted shape of a mushroom cloud. According to the artist, '...the whole structure was meant to have contained power and force' (from A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture by Ira J. Bach and Mary Lackritz Gray). This project is also featured in Chicago: A Survey of Contemporary Public Sculpture. [Note that the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) gives the height of the sculpture as 14 ft.] Project History: Mrs. Enrico Fermi, widow of the Nobel Laureate nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, unveiled the memorial on December 2, 1967, marking the 25th anniversary of the first self-sustained nuclear reaction. A committee, established by the University of Chicago President George Beadle, saw a three-inch study of Nuclear Energy in Moore's studio in England, and commissioned him to produce a full-sized version. The artist visited the site where the work would be located, and supervised the casting of the sculpture. [See also Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) entry on Nuclear Energy, (sculpture) http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1303743Y0B816.65900andmenu=searchandaspect=Keywordandnpp=50andipp=20andspp=20andprofile=ariallandri=andterm=andindex=.GWandx=0andy=0andaspect=Keywordandterm=mooreandindex=.AWandterm=nuclear+energyandindex=.TWandterm=andindex=.SWandterm=andindex=.FWandterm=andindex=.OWandterm=andindex=.NW
Technique/Process	sculpture, metalworking, casting
Materials/Medium	Sculpture: bronze. Base: stone
Dimensions	Sculpture: ca. Ht. 14 ft. x Diam. 8 ft. Base: ca. Ht. 1 1/2 ft. Diam.: 10 ft.
Century	20th Century
Location.Current Site/City & Country	Chicago, Illinois (United States)
Location.Current Repository	University of Chicago
Subject	Sculpture, British Sculpture, 20th Century Public sculpture
Publisher	ART on FILE
Publisher.Location	ART on FILE. 1837 East Shelby St. Seattle, Washington 98112 (United States). www.artonfile.com
Set/Project Title	Contemporary Monuments and Memorials
Reference Number	Art on File MM-16(2)-1
Collection Title	Sculpture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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