Group of Four Trees
One Chase Manhattan Plaza Building — Chase Bank's former headquarters lately renamed "28 Liberty Street" to tie it to the street and to make life easier for postal workers.
Sculpture "Group of Four Trees" by French artist Jean Dubuffet. 1970.
In 1969, David Rockefeller, then chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, asked Jean Dubuffet to design models for a possible sculpture to be placed in front of the bank’s new building. Already, the building’s plaza included Isamu Noguchi’s Sunken Garden, completed in 1964, and the bank’s leaders wanted to add another sculpture as well.
Dubuffet submitted a number of models, of which Group of Four Trees was chosen. He then enlarged the piece for placement in the plaza. The sculpture is made of synthetic plastic over an aluminum frame, with a steel armature holding the whole piece together.
Lower Manhattan, New York.
Group of Four Trees
One Chase Manhattan Plaza Building — Chase Bank's former headquarters lately renamed "28 Liberty Street" to tie it to the street and to make life easier for postal workers.
Sculpture "Group of Four Trees" by French artist Jean Dubuffet. 1970.
In 1969, David Rockefeller, then chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, asked Jean Dubuffet to design models for a possible sculpture to be placed in front of the bank’s new building. Already, the building’s plaza included Isamu Noguchi’s Sunken Garden, completed in 1964, and the bank’s leaders wanted to add another sculpture as well.
Dubuffet submitted a number of models, of which Group of Four Trees was chosen. He then enlarged the piece for placement in the plaza. The sculpture is made of synthetic plastic over an aluminum frame, with a steel armature holding the whole piece together.
Lower Manhattan, New York.