Chestnut Street Landmark Goes Bronx

It was au revoir last week for a small but well-known piece of public sculpture on the 500 block of West Chestnut Street.

"Urban Regeneration," an aptly named gathering of sedimentary coquina rocks and twisted, weathered steel by Bronx artist Linda Cunningham, was ponderously rolled up into the back of a rental truck and shipped off to a new location in the northeast Bronx neighborhood of Westchester Square, which is itself experiencing a regeneration. 

That Was The View That Was

The last piece awaits loading

The piece now removed from Chestnut Street is no stranger to travel.  Originally much larger, it was exhibited in Knoxville, Tenn., where a Georgia collector purchased a large segment of it. The remainder found an on-loan home in Lancaster, but when the homeowners sold to new occupants who wanted the sculpture gone, the search for a new site commenced.

The artist supervises the deconstruction

Formerly a professor of sculpture at Franklin & Marshall and a determined urban regenerator herself, Cunningham departed Lancaster some years back for the South Bronx, where she established the community gallery bronxartspace.  

The life of a work of art can be as nomadic as that of the artist. We wish both all due success.

Sculptor Linda Cunningham and friend take a moment before the long drive