New York City Subway Art Hunt
The AI is 99% certain you have discovered "Trade, Treasure and Travel" by Margie Hughto! Nice find!
Thoughts when the art was first found: Saw behind my girlfriend while waiting for the c/e downtown at cortland. She was in the middle of an important conversation and not amused
Trade, Treasure and Travel
This is "Trade, Treasure and Travel" by Margie Hughto made with Ceramic relief tile in 1997 in the Cortlandt St station.
More info from New York Open Data
The Lost Battalion was a group of sold iers, most of them from New York, who were killed in battle in World War I. Pablo TaulerÕs sculptural forms at the Woodhaven Boulevard station honor their sacrifice. In Memory of the Lost Battalion uses nine station support beams to undergird the memorial, surrounding them with wrappings of iron, steel, and glass. The artist skillfully combines and manipulates the materials to evoke the terrain of the battlefield in France where the men perished. Trees are suggested by shaped iron and guns by manipulated pieces of steel. Light is refracted by the glass elements to powerful effect. Tauler says the bent metal forms remind him of his forays as a child into the marshlands near his home: ÒI am profoundly aware of the importance of the environment to my art,Ó he says. ÒEspecially interesting to me is the manipulation of light through the use of texture and reflective materials.Ó
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