Well, sorry to insist, but I did not see my message on the list (nor any other since about a week? I hope the list server was not upset by my earlier messages?). So a last try, this time whithout any attached pictures... Thierry
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Fwd: Re: Moore sundials] Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:19:46 +0200 From: Thierry van Steenberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: *Sundial List <[email protected]> OK, I think my message below did not make it through the list manager... Maybe because of the five attached pictures? Let me try again with only one picture, as I think I remember somebody mentioned this was the trick. (Sorry for those few who already received this!) Thierry -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Moore sundials Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:30:09 +0200 From: Thierry van Steenberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: *Sundial List <[email protected]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],*Chris Lusby Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,*Mario Arnaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,*Thibaud Taudin-Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,*Woody Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, Willy Leenders wrote: > > Hi, > > The Henry Moore sundial in Belgium is still there. > It's situated at the IBM Education Centre, Chaussée de Bruxelles, 135, > B-1310 La Hulpe > La Hulpe is situated 20 km south-east of Brussels. > Most of the staff of the Education Centre is out of touch of this sundial, at > best they know that > there is a sculpture of Henry Moore. > This sundial was not originally made for the Education Centre. It's not clear > from where it came. > Eric Daled, editor-in-chief of 'Zonnetijdingen', the journal of > 'Zonnewijzerkring Vlaanderen' (the > Flemmish Sundial Association) made a photograph of the sundial. It is > published in edition 2001/1 of > the journal. > > In the book "With Henry Moore. The artist at work" (Sidgwick & Jackson, > London, 1978) you can see > two photographs of Moore's sundial sculpture 'Working Model for Sundial', > dated 1965, situated in > the garden of Moore's home, Hoglands, at Much Hadham in Hertfordshire. > One photograph is a view from inside the house, the other one is a view with > Hoglands in the > background. > The photographs are made in 1977. > > Best regards, > > Willy > > ============================= > Willy Leenders > Kloosterlaan 60 > B 3500 Hasselt > Belgium > 50.893722 N 5.34986 E > Tel. (00)(#)(0)11 72 04 47 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ============================= Having read the message of Woody Sullivan, and as the weather today was as nice as usual here (referring to the last three days...), I went this afternoon to La Hulpe, where IBM have their International Education Center (IEC). Asking at the reception desk, I was allowed to go in the patio where the sundial indeed is, and I thankfully went to admire and take some pictures. Nobody at IBM-IEC can ignore it, in my opinion, as it is very visible, and it is featured on the cover picture of a small flyer that IBM'ers on training there receive, in addition to appear on the map of premises as a recognizable beacon. (I still have to scan that and then will send the scan to anybody interested, hoping that this won't hurt IBM's copyright...) However, as Willy Leenders says, the people at the reception don't seem to know much about the piece. They knew that there is the sundial, but don't know about its history/origin nor even its author. The (equatorial) sundial is about 4-5m high, formed by two circular/crescent beams of triangular cross-section, and the gnomon is a cylindrical bar about 3cm thick. The material seems to be patinated bronze indeed, not unusual for an outdoor sculpture (the lower faces are bright brown, while the upper faces are matte dark grey). The scale is divided in 5min increments. I could not find any signature or other indices of the origin of the sundial. I had not yet the time to calculate, but when I took the pictures it was about 14:45, and the dial indicated 12:40, which seems about OK as we are here on WET/DST (+2). As a picture is worth..., I send herewith a few of the pictures I could take thanks to a borrowed digital camera, reduced in size for the sake of bandwidth. By the way, wouldn't it be nice if those who mentioned pictures in books could have them scanned and sent to the list? Best regards to all, Thierry -- __________________________________ Thierry van Steenberghe Bruxelles / Belgium mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________
