Article: Botero's bounty comes to Washington

ON SEPTEMBER 24, nineteen monumental bronze sculptures by the Colombian artist Fernando Botero were installed along the north side of Constitution Avenue, between 15th and 18th streets, as part of the twentieth-anniversary celebration of the Art Museum of the Americas. Ranging from three to twelve feet in height or length, and weighing between two thousand and five thousand pounds, Botero's prodigious and distinctive figures include a reclining nude of seductive and delicate corpulence and a muscular, protuberant horse, which would excite the envy of Trojans. Another sculpture, a massive infant's hand ten feet tall and weighing a ton, seems to frame the White House between its chubby, ...

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