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| OAC Identifier | MOO:87-15 |
| Title | Nautical Gilguy |
| Artwork Description | A wooden sculpture with round recessed edges on the top of the second platform. The top of the sculpture shows a nautical-themed round object, attached by three "legs" or sections that appear to be carved from a single piece of wood. There are also three wooden bolts that may attach the middle piece to what looks like a bottom base. |
| Description on Object | William Moore; nautical gilguy; 24x22x6 inches; maple ash cherry |
| Artist Statement | The sculpture Nautical Gilguy is the largest sculpture in a series of pieces exploring an interest in machinery and the potential of the lathe for making sculptural form. When I was in high school I took classes in Mechanical Drawing for four years. One of the types of drawings we were assigned to do were cut away drawings of machine parts. I was and am intrigued by how these drawings reveal a greater sense of the form and make what might otherwise be ordinary forms quite interesting. The central form of the sculpture was turned on the lathe, out apart and reassembled with the two parts reoriented to each other. I found that by laying the two halves back to back and rotating one away from the other around the central axis, the pieces took on the machine-like qualities of my mechanical cutaway drawings, as well as evoking a distinctly nautical character. Since my intent was to create a machine-like image but not any specific nautical object, the title "gilguy" which is the nautical term for "thingamajig" was apt. (Moore, 1987) |
| LC Subject | Sculpture
Sculpture, Abstract
Wood-carvers
Wood-carving
Wood sculpture
Woodwork
Woodworkers
Wood
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| AAT Subject | sculpture
sculpture (visual work)
woodcarving
maple
ash (wood)
cherry
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| Creator | Moore, William (Bill)
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| Regional Arts Council | The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html |
| Artwork Creation Date | 1982 |
| Award Date(s) | 1987
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| Installation Date | 1988 |
| Medium | Sculpture
Wood carving
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| Artwork Measurements | 24 x 22 x 6 inches |
| Materials/Technique | maple, ash and cherry |
| Source Format | slide
color
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| Artwork Site | Salem Oregon. Department of Transportation. Materials and Testing Laboratory
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| Location | Entry lobby |
| Site Address | 800 Airport Road S. E., Salem Oregon |
| County | Marion County, Oregon
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| Image View | front |
| Image Processing History | Master tiff image captured at 4000 pixels across the long edge using SilverFast AI 6.0 software. Digital images in tiff format are archived and saved. Adobe Photoshop CS2 used to reorient and crop image, set and neutralize shadow and highlight points, adjust levels, contrast and sharpen as needed. Second production tiff saved. Color profile converted from Adobe RGB (1998) to sRGB IEC61966-2.1, resolution revised to 125 pixels, resize longer dimension to 875 pixels; save display jpeg at quality level 6. |
| Rights | Copyright is retained by the artist or author. All rights reserved. |
| Contributors | University of Oregon Libraries; Oregon Arts Commission |
| Publisher | University of Oregon Libraries
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| Digital Collection Title | University of Oregon. Libraries. Oregon Public Percent for Art Digital Collection.
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