Philip Haas: The Four Seasons

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Sep 2018 - Jun 21 2019


The Four Seasons by the American artist Philip Haas, is a monumental, outdoor sculpture set inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s paintings of the same name: Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall form 14-foot human busts from vegetables; fruit; branches; leaves; ivy; and moss. Since The Four Seasons debuted to great acclaim in 2012, the exhibition has been on a five-year, nine-venue tour of museums and gardens in the US and Europe, including New York Botanical Garden; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Gardens of Versailles; and Piazza del Duomo in Milan.

Haas is an internationally-renowned contemporary American artist and filmmaker, who, by marrying sculpture, painting, film, and architecture, has fashioned a unique visual vocabulary all his own. He describes his process as “sculpting by thinking.”

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website
Image: Philip Haas (American, b. 1954). Summer (after Arcimboldo), 2012. Painted and pigmented fiberglass, 15(h) x 13 1/4 (w) x 9 7/8 (d) feet. Courtesy of the artist.
  • Sculpture
  • American
  • Contemporary
  • Philip Haas

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