''Sculpture with a "D"'' is an abstract sculpture by

Sam Gilliam Sam Gilliam ( ; November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) was an American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam was associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C.-area artists that developed a form ...

, designed in 1980 and installed in 1983. It is located at

Davis (MBTA station) Davis station is an underground Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Red Line rapid transit station located at Davis Square in Somerville, Massachusetts. The accessible station has a single island platform for the Red Line, as wel ...

Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a total population of 81,045 people. With an area ...

. Painted aluminum shapes connect to one another and to a supporting grid, forming a composite 44 feet long that hangs above the platform. These were described by a critic as "a burst of painted abstract shapes", and include elements evoking letters which spell out the name of the station. The work was commissioned as one of the first twenty works of the

Arts on the Line Arts on the Line was a program devised to bring art into the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) subway stations in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Arts on the Line was the first program of its kind in the United States and became th ...

program.

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* 1983 sculptures Abstract sculptures in the United States Arts on the Line Somerville, Massachusetts {{sculpture-stub