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Artist/Creator (1)	Pinto, Jody (born 1942)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist, sculptor
Artist/Creator (2)	Harris, Samuel Y.
Artist/Creator (2).Role	architect
Artist/Creator (3)	Keast and Hood Company
Artist/Creator (3).Role	contractor
Artist/Creator (4)	Nolfi Masonry Corporation
Artist/Creator (4).Role	contractor
Title/Caption	Fingerspan
Date of Work	Commissioned 1980. June 1987. Installed June 23, 1987. Dedicated Oct. 25, 1987.
Description of View	Detail view of interior
Notes	Located West Fairmount Park, Wissahickon River, near Livezy Lane, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsor/Developer: The Fairmount Park Art Association, National Endowment for the Arts. Project Description: Perched on a precipitous ledge overlooking Wissahickon Gorge in Fairmount Park, Fingerspan is a sculpture which serves as a pedestrian bridge. It consists of a weathered steel frame made of perforated steel plate, forming a slightly bent finger. A curved metal plate over the entrance to one side of the bridge was cut in the shape of a fingernail. Fingerspan is situated in a densely wooded area. According to Pinto, 'The whole concept behind the using of the form of a finger has to do with physicality and the body...In the design of Fingerspan you pass through something that is shaped actually like an armored finger. In passing through that finger, you go through the joints so that the public becomes the muscle or the bone marrow of that finger... The span is all about traveling, the means that it takes to get from one point to another.' Project History: The Fairmount Park Art Association sponsored the project and, like many public artworks of this kind, it ran the gamut of problems ranging from community and government agency acceptance to engineering and construction delay. Project cost: $149,000.
Technique/Process	sculpture, architecture
Materials/Medium	Cor-Ten steel
Dimensions	Ht. x L x W: ca. 9 ft. x 59 ft. x 4 ft. 10 in.
Century	20th Century
Location.Current Site/City & Country	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
Location.Current Repository	Fairmount Park
Subject	Sculpture, American Architecture, American Sculpture, 20th Century Public art Bridges (built works)
Publisher	ART on FILE
Publisher.Location	ART on FILE. 1837 East Shelby St. Seattle, Washington 98112 (United States). www.artonfile.com
Set/Project Title	New Directions in Public Art: Part III
Reference Number	Art on File PAIII-5(2)-2
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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