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The Installation of Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 15–November 4, 2012

Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City was organized by Anne Strauss, Modern and Contemporary Art

Camera and Editing
Thomas Ling, Photograph Studio, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The exhibition is made possible by Bloomberg.

Additional support is provided by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky, The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation, William S. Lieberman Fund, and Eugenio Lopez.

Cloud City is lent by Christian Keesee.

Video/Audio (2)

James Nares: Street
(00:02:17) 17885 views

The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi
(00:01:17) 1655 views

20th Century Limited

Henry Dreyfuss (American, New York 1904–1972 South Pasedena, California)

Designer:: International Silver Company, Meriden, Connecticut
Date:: 1938
Medium:: Silverplate, steel
Dimensions:: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
Classification:: Metalwork
Credit Line:: Gift of Alan Moss and Robert D. Walsh, 2000
Accession Number:: 2000.530.1

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Marking: Stamped on underside: International Silver Co. / NY/C
Exhibition History

Newport Beach, California: Orange County Museum of Art, May 25 - August 19, 2001. Flint, Michigan: Flint Institute of Arts, September 14 - December 16, 2001. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 11 - April 7, 2002. Charlotte, North Carolina: Mint Museum of Craft and Design, May 3 - July 28, 2002. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Philbrook Museum of Art, August 23 - November 17, 2002. ¦American Modern¦.
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Who
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What
Metal (59,364)

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North and Central America (81,404)

United States (78,109)
When
A.D. 1900-present (77,516)
In the Museum
Modern and Contemporary Art (12,747)
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Design, 1925–50

The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.–present

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