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Toy Cow | Public Sculptures by Donald Gialanella | Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto. Item composed of wood
Toy Cow | Public Sculptures by Donald Gialanella | Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto. Item composed of wood
Toy Cow | Public Sculptures by Donald Gialanella | Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto. Item composed of wood
Toy Cow | Public Sculptures by Donald Gialanella | Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto. Item composed of wood
Toy Cow | Public Sculptures by Donald Gialanella | Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto. Item composed of wood

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Toy Cow - Public Sculptures

Featured In Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, CA

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From afar, Toy Cow appears as a huge colorful cow sculpture. On closer examination, one sees it is made from an organized cacophony of hundreds of dolls, action figures and toys of every description. It’s as if some cosmic magnet pulled these colorful objects together to form a perfect cow. It incorporates everyday objects recombined in an extraordinary way.

The sculpture is constructed entirely of reclaimed toys permanently screwed onto an anatomically accurate wooden armature. Toy Cow makes people smile, especially children, who delight in finding their favorite toys. It provides a positive experience to aid in the healing

Category: Public Sculptures

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Donald Gialanella
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Wescover creator since 2018
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Donald Gialanella originally from Maplewood, NJ, now works out of his studio in St. Petersburg, Florida. He studied fine art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City before advancing his craft through an apprenticeship with renown artist Louise Bourgeois. He worked as a graphics producer at ABC-TV in New York in the 1980’s and received an Emmy for his work on Monday Night Football in 1990.

Gialanella has developed a distinctive visual language that blends classical sensibility with contemporary abstraction. His sculptures, often life-sized or larger, explore the emotional and psychological dimensions of the human form, emphasizing gesture, texture, and negative space.

He has done over 30 monumental public commissions that can be found from California to New York in civic spaces, corporate collections, hospitals, and city streets, where his pieces serve as contemplative focal points.

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