Dale Eldred

The grandson of Finnish immigrant builders, Eldred was raised in Minnesota. Eldred moved to Kansas City in 1959, fresh out of the University of Michigan. Within a year, he was named chairman of the sculpture department of Kansas City Art Institute. Eldred possessed an imposing physical presence and was a college football fullback. He was known to be resilient in the face of challenge, such as the fire in 1991 that destroyed a studio that contained his library and many valuable artworks. Eldred chaired the sculpture department at KCAI for 33 years, exerting a powerful influence on thousands of students, including: James Clover, Gary Freeman, Shawn Brixey, Ming Fay, Michael Rees, John E. Buck, and the collaborative couple, (the late) Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler who met at KCAI. He also was the artistic director of Biosphere II, and was a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Dale Eldred was a victim of the "500-year" flood in the summer of 1993, when the Missouri River inundated parts of Kansas City. He died in a fall while trying to rescue equipment in his West Bottoms-neighborhood studio.

Arizona • Time/Light Fusion, 1990, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale • Time Garden, 1990, Arizona State University, Tempe • Vision Lens: Light and Future, 1990, Arizona State University, Tempe Colorado • Light & Time Labyrinth, 1994 (installed), Auraria Higher Education Center, Denver Florida • Solar Time Plane, 1984, Broward County Main Library, Fort Lauderdale • Light Abacus I, 1990, Criser Hall, Gainesville • Sun Stations, 1983, Coconut Grove Station, Miami • Earth and Sky Garden, 1984, University of South Florida, College of Public Health courtyard, Tampa • "Spectral Field", 1990, University of Central Florida, College of Engineering, Orlando Illinois • Urban Time and Light Field, 1985, Cermak Plaza Shopping Center, Berwyn Iowa • Landscape Piece #1, 1965, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines • Model for Landscape, 1967, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines Kansas • Salina Piece, 1969, University of Kansas, Lawrence • Untitled, 1968, litho, Spencer Gallery of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence • Untitled, 1968, litho, Spencer Gallery of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence • Galileo's Garden, 1984, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park Michigan • Untitled, 1973, Grand Valley State University, Allendale Minnesota • Mankato Piece, 1968, Riverfront Park, Mankato • Minneapolis Project, 1983, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and other sites, Minneapolis Missouri • Heritage Fountain, 1977, Blue Valley Park, Kansas City • Steeple of Light, 1990–94, Community Christian Church, Kansas City • Signage, Harry J. Epstein Hardware, Kansas City • East Gate Piece, 1966, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City • Homage to the Ancients, 1975, print, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City • Seven Views of the Grand Canyon, 1985, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City • Sculpture II, 1963, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City • Standing Iron, 1962, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City • Untitled, 1962, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City • Sun Field, 1991, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis North Carolina • Time + Light Tower, 1991, Capital Blvd & Fairview Dr, Raleigh Ohio • Light Path Crossing, 1987, Case Western University, Cleveland • Sun Obelisk, 1974, Promenade Park, Toledo Oklahoma • Tulsa Time and Light Continuum, 1983, Convention Center, Tulsa • Radiant Range, 1993, Convention Center, Tulsa • Kansas Landmark (Drum Piece), 1965, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa Oregon • Levitated Light, 1987, Portland State University, School of Business Administration, Portland Tennessee • Airport Sun Project, 1989, Nashville International Airport, Nashville Utah • Light and Time Incident, 1995, Utah State University, Science / Technology Library, Logan Virginia • Light Garden, 1988, Virginia Beach Wisconsin • Appleton Aurora, 1989, Appleton Center, Appleton

• City Art Museum, Helsinki (Finland) • Cankaya Cultural and Arts Foundation, Ankara, Turkey