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Charles Umlauf
American, 1911–1994
Charles Umlauf was a teacher at the University of Texas Art Department for forty years, and a respected figurative sculptor. "Icarus" was cast in about 1961, the composition later commissioned at a monumental scale for the Phillips Petroleum Building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Icarus is a subject of Greek legend. His father, Daedalus, fashioned two pair of wings of wax and feathers for himself and his son to escape exile on the island of Crete. Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea. Overcome with the pleasure of flight, Icarus flew too high and too close to the sun, which melted the wax. His wings destroyed, Icarus fell into the sea in an area that bears his name, the Icarian Sea, near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos.
American, 1911–1994
Icarus
1961, cast 1961–1965
Object Type:
Sculpture
Creation Place:
North America, American, Texas
Dimensions:
33 1/4 in. x 21 1/8 in. x 13 in. (84.46 cm x 53.66 cm x 33.02 cm)
Medium and Support:
Bronze
Accession Number:
2009.0013
Credit Line:
Gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh
Charles Umlauf was a teacher at the University of Texas Art Department for forty years, and a respected figurative sculptor. "Icarus" was cast in about 1961, the composition later commissioned at a monumental scale for the Phillips Petroleum Building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Icarus is a subject of Greek legend. His father, Daedalus, fashioned two pair of wings of wax and feathers for himself and his son to escape exile on the island of Crete. Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea. Overcome with the pleasure of flight, Icarus flew too high and too close to the sun, which melted the wax. His wings destroyed, Icarus fell into the sea in an area that bears his name, the Icarian Sea, near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos.
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