The “Iron Poet”, Richard Serra
(November 2, 1938 – March 26, 2024)
Renowned sculptor Richard Serra, known for his monumental steel structures that reshaped the landscape of contemporary art, passed away at the age of 85 at his residence in Orient, N.Y.
His groundbreaking works, characterized by massive tilting corridors and spirals of steel, offered viewers a unique experience, inviting them to navigate through and around the imposing forms to fully comprehend their essence.
Because of this invitation to explore space, materiality, and site, the artist has been long-recognized in the architectural community, earning him the Architectural League of New York President’s Medal in 2014, becoming the first artist to receive the honor.
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Late Medieval; 14th century
Iron key: broached stem; pentagonal bow; large web.
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So we have pure iron, and we add carbon and we call it steel. Ok cool, so then we also have cast iron, which is where you take iron and add more carbon. Yeah okay. And then we get pig iron, which is where you take iron and add even more carbon to it. So with steels we get high carbon steel and low carbon steel. Low carbon steel has more carbon than iron but less than iron. High carbon steel has less carbon than iron but much more than iron.
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Unknown, Rabbit, Meiji Period
A HAMMERED IRON MODEL OF A HARE
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED SOBI (YAMADA SOBI; 1871-1916)
The seated hare finely hammered from a sheet of iron, signature on base
7 ½ in. (19.1 cm.) long
With an original wood box titled tetsu tsuiki usagi (hammered iron hare) and signed Sobi saku, sealed Yamada Sobi
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Iron lock (1911) with inlays of gold, silver, bronze, and copper on wood base,
By Frank L. Koralewsky (1872-1941)
© Art Institute of Chicago
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Maison Martin Margiela: White Ribbed Iron Burn Tank Top (2007)
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The Iron Hand by Raoul Hynckes
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Doc Magnus and the Metal Men by Walt Simonson.
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Pair of firedogs representing Venus and Mars, designed by Quentin-Claude Pitoin and modeled by Etienne-Maurice Falconnet
French, c. 1769
gilt bronze and iron supports
Art Institute of Chicago
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Sword and Scabbard
Celtic, ca. 60 BCE
Although the scabbard has become amalgamated to the iron blade, affecting parts of the surface, its ornamentation and the exquisitely worked hilt make the whole an evocative statement about the technical ability of the Celts, the powerful conquerors of ancient Europe. The sword is of a type associated with the La Tène culture, named after the important Celtic site on Lake Neuchâtel in present-day Switzerland and eastern France. Other related anthropomorphic swords from diverse finds in France, Ireland, and the British Isles demonstrate the expansion of the Celts across Europe.
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