Roof
2004-2005
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View on museum website →Medium
Buckingham Virginia slate
Dimensions
overall: 2255.7 x 4613.6 x 1310.2 cm (888 1/16 x 1816 3/8 x 515 13/16 in.) overall (approximate diameter of each dome): 823 cm (324 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2005.86.1
About the Artist
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy OBE (born 25 July 1956, Cheshire) is a British sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist whose work has redefined the possibilities of land art through an intimate, labor-intensive collaboration with the natural world. Raised in Yorkshire, he worked on farms as a laborer from the age of thirteen — an experience that cultivated a close, physical attentiveness to soil, weather, a...