Cow up a Tree on the Champs-Élysées, 1999

John Kelly: Cow up a Tree, Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1999

John Kelly: Cow up a Tree, Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1999

John Kelly: Cow up a Tree, Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1999

John Kelly: Cow up a Tree, Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1999

John Kelly: Cow up a Tree, Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1999

John Kelly: Cow up a Tree, Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1999

John Kelly: Cow up a Tree, Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1999

John Kelly: Cow up a Tree, Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1999

John Kelly with Cow up a Tree, Coubertin Foundry, Paris – three images showing work in progress

John Kelly with Cow up a Tree, Coubertin Foundry, Paris

John Kelly with Cow up a Tree, Coubertin Foundry, Paris
John Kelly with Cow up a Tree, Coubertin Foundry, Paris

John Kelly with Cow up a Tree, Coubertin Foundry, Paris

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La Vache australienne est en passe de devenir le symbole de cette exposition : elle flotte, mais ne coule pas.

– Harry Bellet et Philippe Dagen, Le Monde, 16 September 1999
(“The Australian Cow is about to become the symbol of this exhibition: it floats, but does not sink.”)

John Kelly with Cow up a Tree, Coubertin Foundry, Paris

John Kelly with Cow up a Tree, Coubertin Foundry, Paris

John Kelly with Cow up a Tree, Coubertin Foundry, Paris

Cow up a Tree on the Champs-Élysées 1999 (Audio & Video News Coverage)

Cartoon; people looking at Cow up a Tree; one person says “United States” (oddly); another says “This is what hormones lead to.”

“United States” “This is what hormones lead to.”

“United States” “This is what hormones lead to.”
‘L’avenue de l’Art’

‘L’avenue de l’Art’

John Lichfield, ‘City where they think art grows on trees’, The Independent, 21 September 1999; newspaper article with a view of the Champs-Elysées taken mid-traffic, looking towards the Arc de Triomphe; no artworks visible

‘City where they think art grows on trees’

Harry Bellet and Philippe Dagen, ‘La sculpture défile en ordre dispersé sur les Champs-Elysées’, Le Monde, 16 September 1999; full-page newspaper article with ‘Cow up a Tree’ the central image, in black-and-white

‘La sculpture défile en ordre dispersé sur les Champs-Elysées’

Painted version of ‘Cow up a Tree’ on the cover of Where Paris, September 1999; apart from superimposed text, the entire cover is of one of John Kelly’s ‘Cow up a Tree’ paintings; the main title reads ’Art on a limb: Contemporary sculpture comes to the Champs Elysées’

Painted version of ‘Cow up a Tree’ on the cover of Where Paris, September 1999

Screengrab from BBC News, 15 September 1999 featuring image of ‘Cow up a Tree’ sculpture in situ; article by James Coomarasamy, titled ‘Sculpture invades Champs Elysees’

Screengrab from BBC News, 15 September 1999 featuring image of ‘Cow up a Tree’

Quantas in-flight magazine re Cow up a Tree, with text titled ‘A cow lands in Paris’ and an image of a maquette for ‘Cow up a Tree’

Quantas in-flight magazine re Cow up a Tree

Françoise Seince, ‘Une vache australienne’, Courier des Métiers d’Art, no 183, sept / oct 1999; scan of a one-page article, which features text and an image of the sculpture in the Coubertin foundry

Françoise Seince, ‘Une vache australienne’, Courier des Métiers d’Art, no 183, sept / oct 1999

Time Magazine

Time Magazine

Time Magazine
The Times, September 1999

The Times, September 1999

One-page magazine article from 1999 called ‘Up and Udder’. In the photo on the left, JK is in the foreground, head and shoulders, with Cow up a a Tree a few metres behind; schoolkids are standing around the sculpture

‘Up and Udder’, 1999

"Cow up a Tree", Benalla Ensign - 27 January 1999

"Cow up a Tree", Benalla Ensign - 27 January 1999

“Cow up a Tree”, Benalla Ensign – 27 January 1999

John Kelly creating his Cow up a Tree at the Coubertin Foundry

Original proposal, to site ‘Cow up a Tree’ in Benalla, Victoria

Original proposal, to site 'Cow up a Tree' in Benalla, Victoria

Original proposal, to site 'Cow up a Tree' in Benalla, Victoria

Excerpt from the original proposal

The making of the Cow up a Tree at the Coubertin Foundry. Hover below to see options.

The making of the Cow up a Tree at the Coubertin Foundry

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Joint show at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, March – May 1999. Hover below to see options.

Niagara Galleries

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Cow up a Tree installed on the Champs-Élysées (Unreleased footage)

Invitation to the launch of Les Champs de la Sculpture, Paris, 2000. Hover below to see options.

les champs de la sculpture invite smaller

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Invitation to the launch of Cow up a tree, Nice, 2007. Hover below to see options.

Postcard_Ville de Nice

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Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne
Harbant Gill, ‘Pull the udder one’, newspaper article, Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne

Cow up a Tree installed in Cork City (2011) – C103 Radio Interview

Cork

Cork

Cork

Cork

Cork
Kieran Dineen, ‘Under Milk Wood’, Evening Echo, 14 November 2011; newspaper article with two imags, the top, larger one showing Cow up a Tree in position outside the Crawford Art Gallery with stalls of various sorts around it; the second shows people milling about near the sculpture

Kieran Dineen, Evening Echo, 14 November 2011

Catherine Shanahan, ‘Special ranch: Cow sculpture finds a home from Christmas’; newspaper article with an image of Cow up a Tree being placed outside the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, plus a portrait photo of Mary McCarthy, director of the National Sculpture Factory

Cork

Cork
Brian O’Connell, ‘When cows come home: bovine beauty baffles Cork’, Irish Times, 14 November 2011; newspaper article with image of Cow up a Tree being installed outside the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork city

British MPs almost arrested for defying simple French Law (Featuring Cow up a Tree)

The Hague

The Hague

The Hague
Cow up a Tree, The Hague; parallel text in Dutch then English; two-page spread; on the left page there is a photo of Cow up at Tree installed on a city street, with a black car passing in the foreground and a very neat three-storey building behind the sculpture

Cow up a Tree, The Hague

Cow up a Tree, The Hague
Glastonbury, 2007

Glastonbury, 2007

Glastonbury, 2007
Glastonbury, 2007: article: Fans to rock until the two-tonne cows come home

Glastonbury, 2007: Fans to rock until the two-tonne cows come home

Glastonbury, 2007
Glastonbury, 2007: photo of ’Cow up a Tree’ with someone sitting lean back against it and various temporary structures behind; enigmatic caption at the bottom of the image: ‘Twister [in italics] comes true. Locals none too distressed.’

Glastonbury, 2007: photo of ’Cow up a Tree’

Glastonbury, 2007

Smith and Singer November 2023 auction catalogue. Hover below to see options.

Smith and Singer) November 2023 auction catalogue

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MAMAC

MAMAC

MAMAC
West Cork

West Cork

West Cork
West Cork

West Cork

West Cork
Cow up a Tree (Reen Farm), West Cork, Ireland

Cow up a Tree (Reen Farm), West Cork, Ireland

Cow up a Tree (Reen Farm), West Cork, Ireland
Cow up a Tree (Reen Farm), West Cork, Ireland

Cow up a Tree (Reen Farm), West Cork, Ireland

Cow up a Tree (Reen Farm), West Cork, Ireland
Cow up a Tree (Reen Farm), West Cork, Ireland

Cow up a Tree (Reen Farm), West Cork, Ireland

Cow up a Tree (Reen Farm), West Cork, Ireland
The Australian Newspaper, June 2022

The Australian Newspaper, June 2022

The Australian Newspaper, June 2022
Philip Hopkins, ‘High & dry’, The Age, 3 February 2007; practically a full-page image in the newspaper of Cow up a Tree; the article is titled High & Dry, and the text overlaying the sky in the image is to do with agriculture

The Age Newspaper, 3 February 2007

The Age Newspaper, 3 February 2007

Media coverage of Cow up a Tree as of 6 October 1999

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1999 Cow up a Tree Champs Elysee press

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