Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Aim High
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Aim High
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Alternate Title:
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Archer
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Image View:
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Detail, of head and arm shooting arrow directly overhead
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Creator:
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after Eero Saarinen (American designer, 1910-1961); Peter Kerr (American sculptor, 1914-1989)
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Location:
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repository: Cranbrook Educational Community (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States)
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Location Note:
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Cranbrook School Quadrangle
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GPS:
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+42.567964-83.253645
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Date:
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1972 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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bronze
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Technique:
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casting (process)
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Subjects:
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human figure; literary or legendary; Virgil. Aeneid; bow and arrow
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Description:
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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))
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Eleven
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Identifier:
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6A1-MC-A-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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