Vintage Mid Century Modern BRUTALIST Santa Fe Roadrunner Metal Sculpture'60s

This is a fantastic and uncommon Vintage Mid Century Modern BRUTALIST Santa Fe Roadrunner Metal Wall Sculpture, approximately dating to the 1960's - 1970's. This work depicts three abstracted roadrunners racing across the desert sand, with saguaro cactus, agave plants, and a large radiant sun framing the scene above. This work is likely created in brass, with various gold tones throughout.

This piece appears to be unsigned, but perhaps you recognize the artist or their work? Approximately 14 3/4 inches tall x 39 1/4 inches wide x 4 1/2 inches deep. Good condition for age and storage, with some light oxidation and some slight bends to the metal edges in some areas please see photos.

Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! Which derives from the French word. Meaning "raw" - was coined to describe an architectural style that emerged in the 1950s featuring monumental buildings, usually made of unornamented concrete, whose design was meant to project an air of strength and solidity.

Brutalist design encompasses that which is crafted, hewn and worked by hand - an aesthetic rebuke (or, at least, a counterpoint) to furniture that is created using 21st-century materials and technology. Paul Evans is Exhibit A. His Sculpture Front cabinets laced with high-relief patinated steel mounts have become collector's items nonpareil, while the chairs and tables in his later Cityscape series and Sculpted Bronze series. Are perhaps the most expressive, attention-grabbing pieces in modern American design.

Other exemplars of brutalist design are Silas Seandel. The idiosyncratic New York furniture designer and sculptor whose works in metal - in particular his tables.

Have a kind of brawny lyricism, and Curtis Jere. A nom-de-trade for the California team of Curtis Freiler and Jerry Fels. The bold makers of expressive scorched and sheared copper and brass mirror frames and wall-mounted sculptures. The names of other brutalist designers are, so far, unknown to history.

Brutalist art drew inspiration from the likes of Le Corbusier's architecture to the sculptures by Alexander Archipenko, Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti. With sculpture, conflicting asymmetrical geometries merged with mayhem and menace, usually constructed from raw forms of metal and clay, to essentially define the brutalist aesthetic. It went on a tangent to the Mid Century modernism where you had artists like Paul Evans creating audacious, brash, heavily textured furniture with pure abandon. Brutalist architecture was quite often represented with repetitive angular geometries to a massive scale. It also was reactionary in the sense that the early Brutalism architects found the streamlined modernist designs too symmetrical and neat and wanted to introduce more abstract and unpredictable shapes to their brutalist buildings.

The radical brutalist art had an element of risk to it and pushed the boundaries of abstract expressionism in modernist art. Rather than being easy on the eye it is more antagonistic and even hostile, and a challenge for interior designers to integrate into any location.

• Artist: Unknown
• Size: Large
• Signed: No
• Material: Metal
• Item Length: 4 1/2 in
• Region of Origin: California, USA
• Subject: Animals, Birds, Desert, Cactus
• Type: Sculpture
• Format: Wall Sculpture
• Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
• Item Height: 14 3/4 in
• Style: Modernism, Mid Century Modern, Modern, Brutalist
• Production Technique: Metalwork
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Handmade: Yes
• Item Width: 39 1/4 in
• Time Period Produced: 1960-1969