Documented artwork / site-specific outdoor sculpture
That Profile
Credit as documented: Martin Puryear
That Profile is Martin Puryear’s open metal sculpture designed for the Getty Center plaza in Los Angeles. Getty dates the full-scale object 1999 and describes six slender legs supporting a network of welded, sandblasted stainless-steel tubes. Bronze strands secure its joints. Seen from different positions, the grid can appear flat or rounded; the framed sky and landscape are as important to the encounter as the metal itself.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 1999
- Materials
- stainless steel, bronze
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- 1371.6 × 914.4 × 345.4 cm (540 × 360 × 136 in.)
- Dimensions apply to
- Getty’s full-size object, accession 99.SI.51; excludes the 1997 maquette.
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
Date not documented
Getty Center plaza, Los Angeles, California
Materials and construction
Getty connects the abstract design to Richard Meier’s surrounding architecture. Storm King’s account concerns a separate 1997 maquette made small enough for Puryear to carry in a suitcase when meeting collaborators and fabricators. Its steel-wire-and-wood medium and inch-scale measurements belong to that model and are not specifications for the Getty sculpture.
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Sources
- collections.stormking.org ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17
- www.getty.edu ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17