Prairie (sculpture)
Prairie is a 1967 multi-piece, painted, constructed steel sculpture; created by the British sculptor Anthony Caro.
Prairie was first purchased during its debut at the Kasmin Gallery in London by the Boston-based collector of modern art, Lewis P. Cabot of the Cabot family. One of the main visual components of the work are the steel rods positioned to give the optical illusion as if one is on a "prairie". Prairie was also the trade name of a dusty shade of yellow paint which colours the sculpture.
Prairie appears on the cover of ArtForum in February 1968; while art historian Michael Fried writing in ArtForum, expressed that "Prairie is a masterpiece, one of the great works of modern art, a touchstone for future sculpture". In an interview of Anthony Caro in the Paris Review, Caro himself said that Prairie was the most abstract sculpture he made.