Number
010903
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. PAWLINSKI
Title
Resolution encouraging the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Milwaukee County Board to relocate the Mark di Suvero Sunburst Sculpture to a more appropriate location.
Analysis
This resolution encourages the Milwaukee Art Museum Board of Trustees and the Milwaukee County Board to relocate the Mark di Suvero Sunburst Sculpture, which is located east of the intersection of East Wisconsin Avenue and North Prospect Avenue in Milwaukee County's William F. O'Donnell Park to a more appropriate location, which would not obstruct the view of or detract from the aesthetics of the Santiago Calatrava addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Body
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee Department of City Development suggested in 1980 that the Milwaukee Art Museum select an artist to construct a sculpture for the small, City-owned Bluff Park, which was located east of the intersection of East Wisconsin Avenue and North Prospect Avenue; and
Whereas, The Milwaukee Art Museum commissioned artist Mark di Suvero with anonymously-donated funds to create the orange, steel-beamed sunburst named "The Calling", and in 1982, the Common Council approved the placement of the sculpture in Bluff Park; and
Whereas, The creation of Milwaukee County's William F. O'Donnell Park in the early 1990s and the recent completion of the Milwaukee Art Museum expansion, with its cabled bridge and winged brise soleil, have dramatically altered the setting for which the Mark di Suvero Sunburst Sculpture was created; and
Whereas, Conversely, the Mark di Suvero Sunburst Sculpture obstructs the view of and detracts from the aesthetics of the Santiago Calatrava addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum; and
Whereas, The Milwaukee Art Museum retains ownership of the Mark di Suvero Sunburst Sculpture, which resides on land which is now part of Milwaukee County's William F. O'Donnell Park; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Common Council encourages the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Milwaukee County Board to relocate the Mark di Suvero Sunburst Sculpture to a more appropriate location; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the City Clerk forward copies of this resolution to the Milwaukee Art Museum Board of Trustees and the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors.
Requestor
Drafter
LRB01492-2
RGP
10/29/01