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''Cavorting Critters'' or ''Brady Street Beasts'' is a
public art
Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre with its own professional and critical discourse. Public art is visually and physically acce ...
work by American artist Bill Reid
William Ronald Reid Jr. (12 January 1920 – 13 March 1998) (Haida) was a Canadian artist whose works include jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and paintings. Producing over one thousand original works during his fifty-year career, Reid ...
located on the East Side of Milwaukee
Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee ...
, Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
near Brady Street and the Holton Street Viaduct. The artwork consists of three creatures made of painted steel.
Description
''Brady Street Beasts'' includes a large blue reindeer accompanied by a red rat and a green dragonfly. The sculptures are constructed from sheet metal welded together on top of a substructure of metal rods. The reindeer appears to have scaled to the top of an exhaust chimney above apublic works
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building. Its yellow antlers extend into the sky, and it grasps a paint can from which blue liquid appears to flow into the opening of the chimney. On the opposite side of the chimney, the rat climbs upward. On the roof of the building adjacent to the chimney, a bug-eyed green dragonfly stands with a telescope to its eye. A nearby weather vane
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includes three words, each painted on a bar with two arrowheads on either end: water, reflection, good food.
References
Outdoor sculptures in Milwaukee 2002 sculptures Sculptures of deer Sculptures of insects Sculptures of mice and rats Animal sculptures in Wisconsin {{Public-art-stub