David von Schlegell (American, 1920-1992)
Marina, 1965
Aluminum, polished

Long-term loan from Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, gift of the J. Patrick Lannan Foundation

In this piece, von Schlegell makes use of his lifelong interest in yacht and airplane design, referencing the external skin of an airplane with sheets of shiny aluminum joined with visible rivets.

David von Schlegell came to sculpture after first studying painting. He turned to sculpture in the early 1960s and evolved a vocabulary of streamlined abstracted forms and planes, often held in place by rigging wire.  Throughout his career, von Schlegell received many public commissions and several grants and awards. His work is represented in the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. He headed the sculpture department at Yale University from 1971-1990.

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