Stock Photo Description: The Nasher Sculpture Museum is a vision of Ray and Patty Nasher to create a roof-less museum. The design goal was to create a structure of lasting significance. It would be analogous to art remains from the archaeological sites, and seek to keep that continuity of ancient civilization. This center placed on the ground floor of the metropolis of Dallas, but acts as an oasis from the busy urban center. It is split into two by the indoor gallery and outdoor sculpture garden. There is a seamless flow of space between the galleries and the sculpture garden. In the garden is a variety of foliage embracing the landscape such as, cedar, elm, oak and willow trees. It was a designers dream to create, and now it is a guest’s paradise of tranquility. The Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection began over 50 years ago. They traveled to Mexico, and became intrigued with Pre-Columbian art and bought their first works. They had humble beginnings, but now they have a sizeable collection of ancient Latin America. And they have further expanded their collection to other ethnographic, archaeological works and American modernist works. It is one of the largest collections of Dallas art. Huge in scale, with head bent and motorized arm continuously moving up and down, Hammering Man signifies both the drudgery and heroism of labor. The artist himself has stressed that the figure has an overlay of personal, political, and social meaning: "the Hammering Man is a worker, and I idolize the worker in myself. At the same time, it seems that the boring, monotonous repetition of the moving arm implies the fate of the mechanistic world." As another commentary on the fate of the individual in the world of modern technology, Borofsky has signed all of his work since early in his career with sequential numbers rather than a signature.
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Stock Photograph of a Sculpture of the Nasher Museum in Dallas
