On view


American, b. 1943
Day Game, 1972
Steel
6 ft. 7 in. x 28 ft. 3 1/2 in. x 69 1/2 in. (200.7 x 862.3 x 176.5 cm)
Gift of the Ralph E. Ogden Foundation
Photo by Jerry L. Thompson
Day Game, one in a series of similar works by David Stoltz, slithers, loops, and jolts from the ground along its long, narrow path through the woods. The sculpture’s calligraphic form reflects Stoltz’s training as a graphic artist while at the same time suggesting an animated quality, as if the steel were electrified by a charge of energy. Stoltz worked in Bennington, Vermont, where a younger generation of sculptors, including Kenneth Noland and Patricia Johanson, had gravitated in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During this period Stoltz produced large steel sculptures, three of which, all dating to 1972, are now in Storm King’s collection: Day Game, River Run, and the more ponderous Owo, which is composed of large rolled and bent steel plates. Day Game was loosely inspired by Anthony Caro’s curvilinear works, which share a sense of horizontality and undulation.

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Other works by this artist

Owo, 1972

River Run, 1972