Sculpture+Group+Symbolizing+World's+Communication+in+the+Atomic+Age

Date: 1959
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1979/1979.107_1a.jpg?itok=2yHpORBC width="344" height="255" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/sculpture-group-symbolizing-worlds-communication-atomic-age-1987"]] || Title: **Sculpture Group Symbolizing World's Communication in the Atomic Age**

Artist: **Harry Bertoia** Born: San Lorenzo, Italy 1915 Died: Barto, Pennsylvania 1978

Medium: brazed and welded brass and bronze Dimensions: 142 1/4 x 231 1/4 x 81 in. (361.4 x 587.4 x 205.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Zenith Corporation

Accession: 1979.107A-D ||
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