Artist

Tom Otterness

Portrait of Tom Otterness

American, b. 1952

Tom Otterness is an American artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Tom Otterness was born in Wichita.

Tom Otterness is an American sculptor who is one of America's most prolific public artists. Otterness's works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums around the world, notably in New York City's Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and Life Underground in the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue New York Subway station. He contributed a balloon to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 1994 he was elected as a member of the National Academy Museum.

Collections represented

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