Normanno Wedge I

1983

Beverly Pepper American, 1922 - 2020

On View

College for Creative Studies, Josephine F. Ford Sculpture Garden Wing

Normanno Wedge I: 1 of Collection Gallery

Normanno Wedge I: 2 of Collection Gallery

Normanno Wedge I: 3 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

The title alludes to the invasion of Italy by the Normans in medieval times. The large wedge bears down on the conical base, but the squared ring between them resists its force. Beverly Pepper began her career as a painter while living as an expatriate in Rome. Later, an intense visit to Angkor Wat inspired, and old tree trunks in her garden encouraged, the artist’s first forays into sculpture. Yet her real breakthrough came with the possibility of working with industrial steel at the Italsider plant in Piombino, Italy.

Title Normanno Wedge I

Artwork Date 1983

Artist Beverly Pepper

Life Dates 1922 - 2020

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Cor-ten steel

Dimensions Overall: 17 feet × 69 inches × 9 3/4 inches (5 m 18.2 cm × 175.3 cm × 24.8 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department Contemporary Art after 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, and funds from Byron and Dorothy Gerson, Jerome and Margot Halperin, Maxwell and Marjorie Jospey, and William M. and Janis Wetsman

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1991.167

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1983, made at the New Haven Art Fabricators, Inc. foundry (New Haven, Connecticut, USA)

installed on Top Gallant Farm (Pawling, New York, USA)

1991-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Virshup, Amy. "Andre Emmerich's Secret Garden." Manhattan Inc. 6, no. 8 (August 1989): pp. 3 (ill.), 86-90.

Nawrocki, Dennis Alan. Art in Detroit Public Places. Detroit, 2008, p. 74.

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Beverly Pepper, Normanno Wedge I, 1983, Cor-Ten steel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, and funds from Byron and Dorothy Gerson, et al., 1991.167.