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Clemson Universtiy Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps senior cadets listen to U.S. Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command and the highest ranking officer to graduate from Clemson’s ROTC program, in a classroom in Tillman Hall, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University’s dean of the College of Education George Petersen and Clifford the Big Red Dog help entertain 150 elementary school kids at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Smart Fit Girls founders Chrissy Chard and Kellie Walters (left) do wall squats with students’ family members and instructors during a family workout at Riverside Middle School in Pendleton, S.C., April 6, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Lea Sims, a first-grader at Chesterfield County Elementary School, reads to two friends at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
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More than 7,200 participants in the 28th annual Bataan Memorial Death March salute during the National Anthem during opening ceremonies at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 19, 2017. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
Crowds gather at Clemson University’s Watt Family Innovation Center to view the 2017 Solar Eclipse, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Kathleen Swinney talks to about 150 Elementary School kids at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
November 2, 2019
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2019
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WYFF reporter Mandy Gaither interviews Bryson Carter in Memorial Stadium, April 27, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command and the highest ranking officer to graduate from Clemson’s Reserve Officers’ Training Program, plays a video of his daughter giving a speech in her college speech class about growing up in a military family to senior AFROTC cadets during an informal Q&Q session in Tillman Hall, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
•Title: The Song of the Vowels
•Collection: Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
•Creator(s): Lipchitz, Jacques (French sculptor, 1891-1973, active in the United States) Male
•Date: 1962; 1931-1932
•Acquisition Date: 1962
•Culture: French
•Style/Period: Cubism
•Work Type: Outdoor Sculpture;
•Materials/Techniques: Bronze
•Extent: 10 Feet Including Base
•Description: “The Song of the Vowels. Gift of Harold D. Uris and Percy Uris 1962.” Artist J. Lipchitz. Between Uris Library and John M. Olin Library.
•Artist Biography: Jacob Lipchitz (1891-1973) was born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz in Druskininkai, Lithuania, and later became a French citizen.
•Donor: Uris, Harold David, 1905-1982; Uris, Percy, 1899-1971
•Repository: Cornell Library
•Repository Location: Between Uris and Olin Libraries, Cornell University
Restored and revitalized, Song of the Vowels enjoys a newly-designed setting on the plaza between Olin and Uris libraries. Cornell University acquired the sculpture in 1962. Since that time, Song of the Vowels has been a fixture on the south end of Cornell’s Arts Quad, and a favorite gathering spot.
Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz created Song of the Vowels in 1931, and had it cast in a limited edition of seven copies, of which Cornell’s is the fifth. Other copies may now be found at Princeton University, UCLA, Stanford University, at Nelson Rockefeller’s Kykuit Gardens and at museums of modern art in Europe.
Born in Lithuania as Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, the artist spent much of his early career in Paris, working alongside Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque as a leader of the Cubist movement. The Cubistic attributes of his style are perhaps better displayed in the Bather, produced between 1923 and 1925, and also owned by the Cornell University Library.
Lipchitz’s Bather is a monumental study of geometric forms and intersecting planes that pivot around a central axis: the human bather’s torso. Bather was one of the last pieces Lipchitz created that can be considered strictly Cubist. Although his debt to Cubism is always apparent in his work, Lipchitz also drew inspiration from mythology, fantasy, and emotion to create expressive sculptural works. Song of the Vowels, created a few years later, represents a significantly different stage in Lipchitz’s oeuvre. While Bather is calm and carefully measured, Song of the Vowels is animated and energetic.
Lipchitz explained his inspiration for Song of the Vowels this way:
I had been commissioned to make a garden statue for Madame de Maudrot for her house at Le Pradet, in the south of France, designed by Le Corbusier. I was entranced by the location, a vineyard with mountains at the background, and since I was still obsessed with the idea of the harp, I decided to attempt a monument suggesting the power of man over nature. I had read somewhere about a papyrus discovered in Egypt having to do with a prayer that was a song composed only of vowels and designed to subdue the forces of nature … I cannot explain why the image of the harp and the Song of the Vowels should have come together except that both of them were in my mind at the same moment.
The design for Olin Library included a small sculpture court in an exterior alcove on the eastern side of the first floor, visible from the main reference area through a glass wall. As the building of Olin Library was nearing completion in 1961, a committee was charged with selecting sculpture for both the Olin Library sculpture court, and for the plaza between Olin and Uris libraries. The committee’s goal was to find modern sculpture of international renown. In January 1962, a major exhibition of Jacques Lipchitz sculpture came to Cornell’s Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art. With urging from art professor Jack Squier, the committee recommended the acquisition of Jacques Lipchitz’s work. Trustee Harold D. Uris, Class of 1925, and his brother, Percy, generously provided funds for both sculptures. Bather was installed in June of 1962, while Song of the Vowels came to its home at Cornell in October of the same year. Olin’s sculpture court has been replaced by a corridor that links Olin Library with the underground Carl A. Kroch Library, which opened in 1992.
After nearly 50 years as a landmark on the Cornell campus, concerns for the preservation and maintenance of Song of the Vowels led to an examination of the physical structure. Small holes had developed and were allowing moisture to penetrate the bronze and compromise the structure, so the sculpture was sent to the Williamstown Art Conservation Center for expert scientific analysis and conservation treatment. The planned return of Song of the Vowels provided an excellent opportunity to redesign the plaza between Uris and Olin Libraries, and landscape architect John Ullberg was hired to re-conceptualize the installation. He created a communal space that focuses attention on the sculpture, placed atop a limestone pedestal in a plaza that incorporates granite pavers, stone benches and new landscaping. The restored sculpture has now come back to its home, where it is appreciated by a new generation of Cornellians.
The Bather, too, has a new location. It now stands near the entrance to Olin Library, within sight of Song of the Vowels.
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
November 2, 2019
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2019
All Rights Reserved
...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 6s.
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An excavator moves dirt on a hill that will become Clemson University’s new College of Business, March 9, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Crowds gather at Clemson University’s Watt Family Innovation Center to view the 2017 Solar Eclipse, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
A Clemson University student jogs on a track around an intramural field next to Memorial Stadium as the sun sets, Feb. 26, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Sincere Williams, 10, gives a speech to a group of professors from Clemson University’s College of Education at Mellichamp Elementary School in Lake City, S.C., March 5, 2018. The professors were visiting South Carolina’s so-called ‘Corridor of Shame’ during a listen and learn field trip to the area, March 6, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, speaks to a packed house in the Clemson University Alumni Center during Clemson’s 10th annual Literary Festival, March 30, 2017. Nguyen won the puliter for his novel The Sympathizer. His other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Andrew Carnagie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command and the highest ranking officer to graduate from Clemson’s ROTC program, administers the Oath of Enlistment to a group of Army ROTC cadets in Military Heritage Plaza, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The Clemson Tiger Band welcomes 150 kids to the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command and the highest ranking officer to graduate from Clemson’s ROTC program, administers the Oath of Enlistment to a group of Army ROTC cadets in Military Heritage Plaza, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Kathleen Swinney, members of the Clemson Tigers football team, Clifford the Big Red Dog and the Clemson Tiger entertain 150 elementary school kids at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force Col. Christopher R. Mann, professor of military studies for Clemson University's Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Det. 770, pauses to gather himself as he speaks to his family during his retirement ceremony in the Tillman Hall auditorium, April 28, 2017. Mann was retiring after a stellar 26-year career. He began as a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy in 1991 and went on to earn two masters degrees, a PhD, and logged 2,800 flight hours. He deployed and flew combat sorties in support of Operations.Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and held command positions in units across a full spectrum of U.S. Air Force operations before being assigned to Clemson. (Photo by Ken Scar)