The May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden

San Diego's Balboa Park boasts 17 museums and cultural institutions with an incredible diversity of collections, from local San Diego history to the history of flight, trains, or automobiles, to the workmanship of the old masters, and the arts, crafts, and culture of people near and far, recent and historical.

With only a brief amount of time to explore, we visited the May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden. This somewhat secluded, and free, outdoor exhibit features 20th-century modern and contemporary sculptures.
Art meets nature here. The diverse three-dimensional sculptures invite physical interaction with visitors. They also lend visual definition to the space, as if the garden space itself has been sculpted. We enjoyed the backdrop of palm trees and close-up views of the California Tower. And how magical it was, at the hour and half-hour, to hear musical chimes coming from the Tower’s carillon.
Rain Mountain, steel sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, 1982.
Aim I, aluminum sculpture by Alexander Liberman, 1980.
Reclining Figure: Arch Leg, bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, 1969.

This particular piece called to us as we are fans of its sculptor. Spinal Column is by Alexander Calder. It was commissioned for the San Diego Museum of Art in 1968.


Figure for Landscape, bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, 1960.
Night Presence II, steel sculpture by Louise Nevelson, 1976.
Sonata Primitive, copper sculpture by Saul L. Baizerman, 1940–1948.

Balboa Park is one of those places where each visit reveals something new. I love that about it. And the fact that it is right next to the San Diego Zoo. Ideal!

“What art is, in reality, is this missing link,
not the links which exist.
It's not what you see that is art;
art is the gap.”
– Marcel Duchamp

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1 comments:

Four Points Bulletin said...

Wow. How cool! I honestly don't think I have seen this before. Thanks for the info!

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