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Two Opposites Reaching Up Toward the Peak of Progress

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Year
  
1977

Artist
  
Thomas Queoff

Location
  
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Created
  
1977

Type
  
Wausau ruby red granite

Dimensions
  
240 cm × 61 cm × 25 cm (94 in × 24 in × 10 in)

Similar
  
Red Flower Rising, Spirit of the Firefighter, William A Starke Memorial

Two Opposites Reaching Up Toward the Peak of Progress is a public art work by American artist Thomas Queoff, located on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The granite sculpture is an obelisk made of a narrow piece of red granite cut into a tapering hourglass form. At its base, the sculpture is approximately two feet wide. As the sculpture narrows by a foot toward its midsection, the granite's surface is faceted along a diagonal line. Toward the sculpture's again wider top, a trapezoidal void in the shape of an elongated diamond divides the granite and gives it the appearance of the eye of a needle. The artwork is located in the traffic median on S. Layton Blvd. between W. Greenfield Ave. and W. Orchard St.

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