Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
Aim High
Alternate Title:
Archer
Image View:
Overall view in courtyard
Creator:
after Eero Saarinen (American designer, 1910-1961); Peter Kerr (American sculptor, 1914-1989)
Location:
repository: Cranbrook Educational Community (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States)
Location Note:
Cranbrook School Quadrangle
GPS:
42.567964-83.253645
Date:
1972 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
bronze
Technique:
casting (process)
Subjects:
human figure; literary or legendary; Virgil. Aeneid; bow and arrow
Description:
Before Tower Court, facing the Cranbrook School Quadrangle is the Aim High sculpture crafted in 1972 by Peter Kerr, a former art instructor in the school, after an Eero Saarinen design. Saarinen based his archer on a story in Virgil's Aeneid in which Acestes, in a contest, shot his arrow high into the sky and the gods, pleased with his spirit, tipped the arrow with fire so that he won. The Aim High image appears on the school seal. (Source: Eckert, Kathryn Bishop; Cranbrook: An Architectural Tour, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001 (1-56898-257-7))
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Eleven
Identifier:
6A1-MC-A-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Aim High