No. 1 Northern
No. 1 Northern is a large public art work in the form of a steel abstract sculpture by John Cullen Nugent, currently standing where it was originally installed in the fore court of the Canadian Grain Commission building in Winnipeg, in 1976. The work generated controversy from the moment it was unveiled, and even after its removal by ministerial order in 1978. In 1979, Meriké Wiler called it the most controversial piece of Canadian public art ever commissioned during the fourteen years of Canada's public art funding scheme. It was hauled away and cut into pieces on two occasions, before and after being installed in front of another federal government building, and finally reinstalled at its intended location once more in 1997, nearly twenty years after its removal.
Q557141
public art
Concept
Q5839475
abstract sculpture
Concept
Q6227834
John Cullen Nugent
PER
Q558436
Canadian Grain Commission
ORG
Q2135
Winnipeg
Concept
Q85789263
No. 1 Northern
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1976-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1976
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1978-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1978
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1979-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1979
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1997-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1997
DATE
+1^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1
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creator
located in the administrative territorial entity
inception
headquarters location