Dance of the Cranes, 1988


Soaring 60 feet into the air, Dance of the Cranes is the largest and tallest bronze sculpture in America. It stands on a wide lawn fronting the entrance to Omaha International Airport in Nebraska. In the book, John Raimondi: Drawing to Sculpture, 2016, George F. Thompson Publishing, its author, Henry Adams, an internationally renowned art historian, writes: “The beauty of abstraction is that it allows more than one reading of a form. Dance of the Cranes is surely based on the courtship dance of the Sandhill Crane, but, as it evolved, the sculpture also developed a shape reminiscent of a Plains Indian war bonnet. For Raimondi, the work is a celebration not only of the Sandhill crane and its millions of years of connections with the Nebraska landscape, but also the many Indian nations that have honored the crane over millennia.”

Click here to watch a documentary on the creation of Dance of the Cranes.

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