Tom Otterness (b. 1952), Crying Giant, 2002, bronze, F.V. DuPont Acquisition Fund (2004)

Using figures that often resemble whimsical cartoon characters; he explores the widest possible range of human experiences from the world of social commentary. He effectively utilizes scale to establish complex relationships between his sculpture and the immediate surrounding environment. Crying Giant is a character drawn from the artist’s active imagination, inspired by Rodin’s Thinker and Goya’s late paintings of giants. It is composed from a distilled language of pure geometric solids: sphere, cylinders and cubes.