Decanter (sculpture)

Sculpture in Houston, Texas, U.S.

Decanter

Artist| Frank Stella
Year| 1987 (1987)
Type| Sculpture
Medium| Stainless steel, bronze, carbon steel
Location| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
Coordinates| 29°43′37.2″N 95°23′25.8″W﻿ / ﻿29.727000°N 95.390500°W﻿ / 29.727000; -95.390500

Decanter is an outdoor 1987 sculpture by Frank Stella, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden in the U.S. state of Texas. It is made of stainless steel, bronze, and carbon steel, and was purchased using monetary contributions from the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund.[1] According to the museum, the piece "offers a exuberant collage of forms which bursts out into space".[2]

## See also

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* Texas portal
* Visual arts portal

* 1987 in art
* List of public art in Houston

## References

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1. ^ "Frank Stella, Decanter, 1987". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Archived from the original on December 10, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
2. ^ "Artworks: Construction in Space". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Archived from the original on December 10, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.

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Paintings|

* Black Paintings (1958–1960)
* Die Fahne Hoch! (1959)
* Fez (1964)
* Mas O Menos (1964)
* Wolfeboro I (1966)

Sculptures|

* Decanter (1987)

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Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden

Sculptures|

* Adam (1889)
* Arch Falls (1981)
* The Back Series
* Big Twist (1978)
* Conversation with the Wind (1962)
* The Crab (1962)
* Cybele
* The Dance (2000)
* Decanter (1987)
* Exhaling Pearls (1993)
* Flora, Nude
* Gymnast II (1985)
* Houston Triptych (1986)
* The Large Horse (1914)
* Large Standing Woman I
* New Forms
* The Pilgrim
* Quarantania I
* Recuerdo de Machu Picchu 3 (Las terrazas) (1984)
* The Sound of Night
* The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–1899)
* Two Circle Sentinel (1961)
* Untitled (Shapiro, 1990)
* The Walking Man

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* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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* The Orange Show
* Pioneer Memorial
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* Spirit of the Confederacy
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* Statue of George H. Hermann
* Statue of Richard W. Dowling
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Cullen Sculpture Garden|

* Adam
* Arch Falls
* The Back Series
* Big Twist
* Conversation with the Wind
* The Crab
* Cybele
* The Dance
* Decanter
* Exhaling Pearls
* Flora, Nude
* Gymnast II
* Houston Triptych
* The Large Horse
* Large Standing Woman I
* New Forms
* The Pilgrim
* Quarantania I
* Recuerdo de Machu Picchu 3 (Las terrazas)
* The Sound of Night
* The Spirit of Eternal Repose
* Two Circle Sentinel
* The Walking Man
* Untitled (Shapiro, 1990)

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* Bust of José Martí
* Bust of José Rizal
* Bust of Ramón Castilla
* Bust of Robert Burns
* Bust of Simón Bolívar
* Bust of Vicente Rocafuerte
* Dawn
* Statue of Confucius
* Statue of Mahatma Gandhi
* Statue of Martin Luther King Jr.

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