Label Type
Object LabelLabel
Submitted as an entry for the U.S. Treasury Department’s war memorial competition (the winning entry was a representational piece depicting a farmer laying down the reins and picking up a rifle). Offense knows the direction of attack, defense requires flexibility. Defense was used again in 1964 as a model for WE’s entry in Philadelphia’s Kennedy Plaza fountain competition, envisioning a 60-foot-high replication in stainless steel, centered in a circular basin of radiating ripples.
