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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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Donald Gialanella

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
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Donald Gialanella
Meet the Creator
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. Donald apprenticed with sculptor Louise Bourgeois after earning a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City. 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. The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg commissioned Donald to create a 17 foot long steel mustache sculpture for the permanent collection in 2016.