Documented artwork / monumental steel sculpture
Illinois Landscape #5
Credit as documented: John Henry
Illinois Landscape #5 stretches horizontally through the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Garden at Governors State University. The university foundation commissioned it with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts, and it debuted in the 1976 exhibition The Sculptor, the Campus, and the Prairie. Henry's archive describes a composition that balances simple structural forms through their visual weight. Its unusually extended arrangement lets the viewer experience the sculpture from within as well as from outside.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 1976
- Materials
- painted steel
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- 36 ft H × 134 ft L × 26 ft D.
- Dimensions apply to
- Overall sculpture envelope; tubing cross-section is separate.
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
1976
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Garden, Governors State University, Illinois
- Site
- Nathan Manilow Sculpture Garden, Governors State University
- State / region
- IL
- Country
- United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
- Event
- The Sculptor, the Campus, and the Prairie
- Commissioner
- Governor’s State University Foundation
- Start year
- 1976
- Date meaning
- premiere
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Materials and construction
Painted steel members use two-foot-square tubular elements. The published envelope is 36 feet high, 134 feet long and 26 feet deep.
Presentation and site context
The spaces between the monumental components permit visitors to move through the work across the campus landscape, making circulation part of its intended encounter.
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- www.johnhenrysculpture.com ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17