Push Plate
Paley's push plate rivals Hector Guimard's turn-of-the-twentieth-century metalwork for its free-flowing exuberance. Like the French architect-designer, he used elaborately sinuous but durable metal detailing to embellish heavily trafficked commercial interiors; this piece, which attached to a glass door, comes from a restaurant in suburban Washington, D.C.
Artwork Details
- Title: Push Plate
- Artist: Albert Paley (American, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1944)
- Date: 1979-1981
- Medium: Bronze
- Dimensions: 42 3/4 × 35 1/2 × 2 1/2 in., 36 lb. (108.6 × 90.2 × 6.4 cm, 16.3 kg)
- Classification: Metalwork-Bronze
- Credit Line: Gift of Clyde's of Tyson Corner Inc., 1981
- Object Number: 1981.298
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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