“What Are Years”: Sulpture “Are Years What” by Suvero

“Are Years What”

Mark di Suvero, 1967. Painted Steel.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C.

This sculpture salutes Moore’s poem:

What Are Years?

What is our innocence, what is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe. And whence is courage: the unanswered question, the resolute doubt, - dumbly calling, deafly listening-that in misfortune, even death, encourage others and in it's defeat, stirs the soul to be strong?