Joel Shapiro's sculptures of the 1970s in cast iron, limestone, or wood were in part responses to earlier Minimalist "specific objects" by artists such as Donald Judd and Carl André. Shapiro absorbed their geometric vocabulary of assembled parts, itself in the tradition of Russian Constructivist sculpture, yet he rejected their neutrality and pure abstraction. Shapiro wished his works to be read metaphorically, as allusions that could draw on the viewer's memories and reactions to imagery suggesting figures. This buoyant dancing object, nearly twice lifesize, is the first sculpture by Shapiro to enter the Museum's collection and his first cast sculpture painted red. It consists of five hexahedral elements. The two "arms" and two "legs" are square in section, and the fifth, torsolike element between them is rectangular. The hollow aluminum lengths were bolted together at acute or obtuse angles and reinforced internally with stainless steel. The aluminum elements were sand cast from solid lengths of wood that Shapiro joined, following smaller wooden models. He left the channels made by the saw, rather than smoothing them out, as evidence of his cutting and casting process.