The Great Art Caper: The Case of the Mystery Sculpture - Hofstra Museum of Art

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART presents

The Great Art Caper

THE CASE OF THE MYSTERY SCULPTURE

This book belongs to Detective

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YOUR ASSIGNMENT!

MYSTERY SCULPTURE MAP HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART

Campus security could use your advice.

Odd things are happening, to be more precise.

Flower petals are everywhere, strewn on the ground.

The grass has been trampled, with holes all around.

Creaking, odd sounds have been heard late in the night.

There’s talk of a mischievous sculpture hiding out of sight.

The other sculptures know who is making a mess, But exactly which sculpture it is, they will not confess.

And although they refuse to stand up and say, We know that their clues can help point the way.

Who is it, why is this happening, and what can we do?

To help solve the mystery is what we ask of you!

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1 Creating

by J. Seward Johnson Jr.

2 Victory Eagle

by Greg Wyatt

3 Hofstra Lions

by Glenn Hines

4 Plato Having

a Dialogue with Socrates

by Mihail Chemiakin

5 Knight

by Manolo Pascual

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1 Creating

by J. Seward Johnson Jr.

2 Knight

by Manolo Pascual

3 Upright Motive

No. 9

by Henry Moore

4 Hofstra Lions

by Glenn Hines BUSINESS SCHOOL 5 Trap BUILDING

by Seymour Lipton

6 Plato Having

a Dialogue With Socrates

by Mihail Chemiakin

7 See

by Arthur Gibbons

8 Victory Eagle

by Greg Wyatt

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#1 J. Seward Johnson Jr. (American, b. 1930) CREATING, 1982

#8 Greg Wyatt (American, b. 1949) VICTORY EAGLE, 1996-97

Draw a picture of the sculpture in the box.

Draw a picture of the sculpture in the box.

Here I sit crisscross on the ground.

I notice some holes that are scattered around.

Last night I saw someone climbing up high.

It’s for you to figure out who and why.

The view from up here lets me see far and wide.

I have seen some things, I must confide.

It makes no sense; he’s always been good.

Why would he do this and not act as he should?

So take note of my clipboard and what I have done, and see what I’m drawing – it’s clue No. 1.

As you will see, this question will give you the next clue to our mystery.

Bronze, Hofstra University Museum of Art Hofstra University Purchase, HU85.68

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Bronze, Hofstra University Museum of Art Hofstra University Purchase, HU98.4

What is he drawing on his clipboard?

What do you think is the widest part of this sculpture?

A ________ _______ _______ _______ 5

The ________ ________ ________ ________ _______ 3

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#4 Glenn Hines (American, b. 1950) HOFSTRA LIONS, 1994 and 1995 Bronze, Hofstra University Museum of Art Hofstra University Purchase, UC474 Draw a picture of the sculpture in the box.

#6 Mihail Chemiakin (Russian, b. 1943) PLATO HAVING A DIALOGUE WITH SOCRATES, 1999 Bronze, Hofstra University Museum of Art Gift of the Estate of Harold E. Yuker, HU99.7 Draw a picture of the sculpture in the box.

We’re the pride of the campus, and surely not frail, But oh how we roared when we stepped on a nail!

Then we realized there’s more than just one.

Where could all these nails be coming from?

We’re made of bronze, which can be brown in the daylight air, But look close – after sunning ourselves, another color is there!

What other color do you see on the lions? _______ ________ ________ ________ ________ 4 2

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My mind is always wondering as I sit at this site.

Who’s moving about in the dark of the night?

Whoever it is should know right from wrong!

And do the right thing to keep us all strong!

We great and wise teachers have your final clue.

The object between us holds much knowledge that can be read by you.

What is the object?

A _________ _________ _________ ________ 1 To find the culprit, place the letters from the boxes on the matching numbered lines.

_______ ________ ________ ________ H ________ 1 2 3 4 5 Answer key available in gallery.

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GO SEE THE CULPRIT AND THEN DRAW A PICTURE OF THE SCULPTURE IN THE BOX.

DRAW A COMPANION FOR THE SCULPTURE SO IT IS NO LONGER LONELY.

The culprit is_____________________________

The other sculptures are in the quads – together and free – while I’m guarding the Museum, alone as can be.

People would find that I have much to share.

If some attention were paid to me, that would only be fair!

If I had a companion here by my side, I wouldn’t get into trouble and need to hide.

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Did you solve the mystery?

Then maybe you, a sibling, or friend may like to read …

Picture Book Mysteries What Really Happened to Humpty?: From the Files of a Hard-Boiled Detective

by Jeanie Franz Ransom, pre-K – Grade 3 Tuesday

by David Wiesner, pre-K – Grade 3 Grandpa’s Teeth

by Rod Clement, pre-K – Grade 3 Black and White

by David Macaulay, Grades 1-2

Elementary School and Middle School Mysteries From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E.L. Konigsburg, Grade 3+ Art Auction Mystery: Find the Fakes, Save the Sale!

by Anna Nilsen, Grade 4+ Chasing Vermeer

by Blue Balliett, Grade 4+ The Encyclopedia Brown Series

by Donald J. Sobol, Grade 5+ Masterpiece

by Elise Broach, Grade 5+ The Van Gogh Deception

by Deron Hicks, Grade 6+

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MUSEUM INFORMATION Hofstra University Museum of Art 112 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549-1120 516-463-7445 hofstra.edu/museum Hofstra University Museum of Art Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. t Emily Lowe Gallery Located behind Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus t David Filderman Gallery Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, Ninth Floor, South Campus t Museum Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, noon-4 p.m.

The Museum is closed on weekends during the summer (mid-May through Labor Day). t Please enjoy more of the outdoor sculpture collection located throughout the Hofstra University campus.

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