Dancer with Flat Hat

A slightly larger than life-size bronze figure by the Seattle sculptor Phillip Levine (1931-2021), who founded the Phoenix School of Art in Seattle and taught sculpture, drawing and design. Levine completed the Dancer in 1971 for a show of Art in Public Places on the University of Washington campus, and it was donated to the university that year by the William G. Reed family in honor of Eleanor Henry Reed. It stands near the 15th Avenue pedestrian bridge by Schmitz Hall, in the University District of Seattle, and was moved west of its original site when the Henry Art Gallery was remodeled in the early 1990s. Vandals broke the leg in 1989 and Levine took the figure home to repair it; the Smithsonian Save Outdoor Sculpture survey recorded it in June 1994 as needing treatment. That record dates the casting itself to 1966, a silicon bronze lost-wax cast, against the HistoryLink date of 1971 for the completed work; this page publishes 1971, the year it was finished for the campus and given to the university. Sources: HistoryLink essay 3834, Levine, Phillip (1931-2021) (sculptor, 1971 completion, Art in Public Places, the Henry Art Gallery move); Wikipedia, Dancer with Flat Hat, citing the Smithsonian Save Outdoor Sculpture record and the Reed family donation; Wikidata Q22096277 (register record).

Sculptor

Phillip Levine

Made

1971

Material

Bronze

Where

Seattle, Washington, United States

Coordinates

47.65633, -122.31239 — open the map

Source

Wikidata Q22096277 — the facts above come from here. Something wrong? Correct it at the source and it flows back.