Manhattan Sentinels

BEVERLY PEPPER MANHATTAN SENTINELS, 1996 The sculpture group Mannattan Sentinels includes four cast-iron totemic forms that range in height trom 36 to 39 feet and ancorporate grass and Sealing areas on two plazas flanking the Federal Office Building at 26 Federal Plaza. These sculptures stand in active dialogue with our urban spaces in the past, forms such as these served as monuments to civic pride or spiritual devotion. Today they also celebrate human aspirations and contmany, and invite us to reflect on shared meanings and experiences. Beverly Pepper was born in New York City where she studied at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League. She also trained with Fernand Leger and at the Grande Chaumiere with André Lhote in Paris, France. Her works are represented in major museutus and public and private collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota; Florence Museum of Art, Italy; and the Barcelona Museum of Modern Art, Spain. Commissioned by the Art in Architecture Program of the U.S. General Services Administration