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Generations is a permanent outdoor sculpture installation by Richard Artschwager (1990) along University Avenue outside the Chazen Museum of Art (formerly the Elvehjem Building) on the UW-Madison campus. Three paired sets of an evergreen tree and a Plexiglas sphere or dome are arranged in a progression across a site given as 32 x 60 x 155 feet; the tallest tree is fabricated from steel and aluminum and raised on stainless steel columns, while the other two trees are living.
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Generations (Artschwager, 155 ft) Chazen Museum
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Free to view from the public sidewalk along University Avenue at East Campus Mall on the UW-Madison campus; it is an outdoor work, separate from the museum galleries.
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Outdoor permanent installation beside University Avenue at East Campus Mall, outside the Chazen Museum of Art building; no admission is needed to see it from the street frontage.
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