Workers assembling the sculpture "Head of a Woman" by Pablo Picasso, 1971.
Princeton's version of Picasso's original one-foot high sheet metal work "Head of a Woman," is nearly 16 feet high and was assembled in concrete by Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar who worked as an intermediary between Picasso and the University. The sculpture was located in front of McCormick Hall, home of the Princeton University Art Museum and the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, from 1971 to 2002, and now sits on the lawn in front of Spelman Hall.
The piece is part of the Princeton University Art Museum's John B. Putnam, Jr., Memorial Collection of twentieth-century sculpture, which includes works by such modern masters as Jacques Lipshitz, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, and Isamu Noguchi.
Photo courtesy of Princeton University Archives