This portrait addresses the mystery of distance, personality and public perception.

Arthur Fiedler, the longtime popular conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, was a celebrity whose avuncular media image and private cantankerous persona were at odds.

The sculpture’s esthetic strategy reverses normal expectations of physical proximity and “knowing”.

A layered image, it reads most coherently from afar, becoming more uncertain as the viewer draws near, providing a visual parallel for the character of the man. The closer one gets, the less one knows.

The Arthur Fiedler Memorial was fabricated by Lippincott, North Haven, CT.

1984
95” high
82” wide
81” deep