Sundial
Artwork copyright held by the artist
Artwork Information
Artist:
Carlton Bell
Date:
1984
Media:
Equatorial Dial, steel
Size:
Location:
West side of Anna Pechanec Hall (APH) and the Science Building (SCI)
About the Artist:
Carlon Bell was a welding instructor at Clark College when he designed the sundial. Bell was an African American welding and welded scupture artist. Bell also served the the US Marine Corps. He was a professor at Clark College from 1978 into the 1980s. He produced many public artworks, including the Clark College sundial that was designed an made by him with other professors at Clark for the college's fiftieth anniversary.
Artwork description:
A 2 meter diameter ring equatorial dial of welded anodized aluminum plate. The dial face shows Arabic numerals with hour and quarter-hour marks. This face can be moved for longitude correction and DST, and was originally adjusted to correct periodically for EOT. In 2009, the original straight gnomon was replaced with an analemmic gnomon, eliminating the need to adjust or correct for EOT.
In 2009 analemmic gnomon was added by Art Krenzel. Plaque lists those involved in original design and construction.
Acquisition Information:
This work was completed in honor of the Clark for the college's fiftieth anniversary.
Related Links:
https://sundials.org/index.php/sundial-registry/onedial/659
https://portlandpublicart.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/does-anyone-out-there-know-carlton-bell/