Union 060719

Artist Hoss Haley American, born 1961

Date2019

MediumCor-ten steel

Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 138 × 30 1/2 × 30 1/2 in., (350.5 × 77.5 × 77.5 cm), weight (estimated): 1500 lb. 680.4 kg)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of Renee and Ralph Snyderman in honor of Daniel Gottlieb

Object number2020.2

On View

On view

Label TextBased in western North Carolina since the early 1990s, Haley grew up on a farm in rural Kansas, in an area where abandoned and rusting farm machinery was a common sight.
In reference to Union 060719, Haley states, “Whenever I go back to Kansas, I see the decay—there are fewer grain elevators, there are fewer farmsteads, if they are occupied at all there’s a double-wide sitting next to the farm that’s falling in. These are monuments to that history.”
[L. Dougherty, 2024]ProvenanceThe artist; with Penland Gallery, Penland NC; sold to NCMA, 2020.Published ReferencesHoss Haley: Correction Line (Penland, NC: Penland Gallery, 2019), exhibition brochure.
Exhibition HistoryPenland, NC, Penland Gallery, “Hoss Haley: Correction Line,” July 30–September 15, 2019.
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