Famed American sculptor Richard Serra, the 'poet of iron,' has died at 85

Famed American artist and sculptor Richard Serra, known for turning curving walls of rusting steel and other malleable materials into large-scale pieces of outdoor artwork that are now dotted across the world, died Tuesday at his home in Long Island, New York. He was 85. Considered one of his generation's most preeminent sculptors, the San Francisco native originally studied painting at Yale University but turned to sculpting in the 1960s, inspired by trips to Europe.

He was closely identified with the minimalist movement of the 1970s. Serra's work started to gain attention in 1981, when he installed a 120-foot-long and 12-foot-high curving wall of raw steel that splits the Federal Plaza in New York City. The sculpture, called 'Tilted Arc,' generated swift backlash and a fierce demand that it should be removed. The sculpture was later dismantled, but Serra's popularity in the New York art scene had been cemented.

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