Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture, Stone River, Enters Stanford
University's Outdoor Art Collection Stanford, CA, Sept. 4,
2001—In late August, British artist Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956)
completed Stone River, a 320-foot sculpture on the campus of
Stanford University. Constructed of sandstone from university
buildings destroyed in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes, Stone
River is the largest work of outdoor art at the university. In
addition to Goldsworthy, a team of eight professional dry-stone
wallers from England and Scotland worked 11 hours a day, six
days a week, for three and a half weeks (1848 hours) to complete
the sculpture on schedule. Stone River is a wall-like serpentine
sculpture set in about three acres of land to the northeast of
the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. It is about
3 1/2 feet high and about 4 feet wide at its base. It is made of
more than 6,500 stones, including about 700 triangular coping
stones weighing between 20 and 50 pounds each that top the
sculpture. Each coping stone