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Large Spindle Piece, a bronze by English sculptor Henry Moore, stands on a knoll in Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston. The Knox Foundation gave it to the city in 1979; Houston Arts Foundation says Moore asked for a better site than Tranquility Park.
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Large Spindle Piece Henry Moore Buffalo Bayou Park
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A bronze by the English sculptor Henry Moore, listed by Houston Arts Foundation at 144 inches (12 feet) high, stands on a grassy rise in Buffalo Bayou Park.
Large Spindle Piece is by Henry Moore (1898 to 1986). Houston Arts Foundation dates the work to 1969 and gives its size as 144 by 96 by 5 inches, mounted on a circular concrete base painted matte brown. The Henry Moore catalogue gives the date of the plaster original as 1968 and describes a bronze edition of six plus one cast around 1974.
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Large outdoor bronze on a grassy knoll in Buffalo Bayou Park. It stands outdoors in Buffalo Bayou Park, near Eleanor Tinsley Park, and the Buffalo Bayou Partnership lists it as permanent public art.
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Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston: on a knoll in the Fondren Foundation Meadow near Eleanor Tinsley Park, per Buffalo Bayou Partnership. Houston Arts Foundation gives the park address as 3600 Allen Parkway.
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