Hammering Man
1991
Contemporary
public art
Outside the Seattle Art Museum's downtown entrance, Jonathan Borofsky's Hammering Man swings a motorized hammer four times a minute from atop a forty-eight-foot black steel silhouette. Built in 1991 at a cost of $450,000, the sculpture…
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- 1991
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