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English sculptor Anthony Caro's steel sculpture titled 'Moment' is installed at the Portland Museum of Art's Joan B. Sculpture Garden in Portland, Maine. Image courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art.

1,500-pound sculpture in place at Maine art museum

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
English sculptor Anthony Caro's steel sculpture titled 'Moment' is installed at the Portland Museum of Art's Joan B. Sculpture Garden in Portland, Maine. Image courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art.
English sculptor Anthony Caro’s steel sculpture titled ‘Moment’ is installed at the Portland Museum of Art’s Joan B. Sculpture Garden in Portland, Maine. Image courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Artwork usually doesn’t require a crane to move. But that’s what it took to install a new sculpture at the Portland Museum of Art.

The giant steel artwork by celebrated English sculptor Anthony Caro was lifted by crane into the museum’s Joan B. Burns Sculpture Garden on Monday.

The work is titled “Moment.”

Weighing 1,500 pounds and reaching more than 8 feet tall, it joins another outdoor sculpture, Celeste Roberge’s “Raising Cairn.”

“Moment” is the first of two sculptures by Caro that are being donated by Guido Goldman of Concord, Mass., the founding Director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

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English sculptor Anthony Caro's steel sculpture titled 'Moment' is installed at the Portland Museum of Art's Joan B. Sculpture Garden in Portland, Maine. Image courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art.
English sculptor Anthony Caro’s steel sculpture titled ‘Moment’ is installed at the Portland Museum of Art’s Joan B. Sculpture Garden in Portland, Maine. Image courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art.