Counterpoint
Dennis Smith · 200 South, downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, USA · 1979
Photo: photographer not named in our source, as published on Street Art Utopia.
Dennis Smith’s bronze mother swings her daughter through the air on 200 South in downtown Salt Lake City, across the street from the Capitol Theatre. The group was put up in 1979. Source Source Source Checked
Seen Jul 2025: a Google Street View image from July 2025 shows the figure group on its pedestal with a plaque at this spot. Source Reported
💡 5 things to know
- Put up in 1979Encircle Photos says the sculpture was erected in 1979 and stands across from the Capitol Theatre. Source Checked
- Two familiesCounterpoint has two figure groups: a mother leaning back as she swings her daughter around, and a father with a young boy sitting on his shoulders, according to the Waymarking record (which cites the Smithsonian Art Inventory) and Wikipedia. Source Source Checked
- Bronze on concreteThe Waymarking record lists bronze figures on a concrete base at 200 South and 50 West. Source Source Checked
- Surveyed in 1993Wikipedia says the Smithsonian’s Save Outdoor Sculpture! programme surveyed the work in 1993. Source Reported
- Still offered as an editionThe artist’s website lists COUNTER POINT at 65 × 75 × 20 inches and says his work is cast in small limited editions. Source Checked
📍 Where it is
On 200 South at 50 West in downtown Salt Lake City, across the street from the Capitol Theatre. Source Source Checked
Opens Google Maps at the sculpture’s listed position (40.76480, -111.89315).
🗓️ Sightings
- 1979
Erected · Encircle Photos
- 1993
Surveyed by Save Outdoor Sculpture! · Wikipedia
- 20119 May
Listed on Waymarking
- 2025Jul
On its pedestal · Street View
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
“This Smithsonian Art Gallery piece consists of two figure groups.”
“It was erected in 1979.”
✅ The facts
🔗 Related
All sources & image credits
- Encircle Photos: Counterpoint Sculpture in Salt Lake City, Utah (undated)
- Waymarking: Counterpoint, Salt Lake City, Utah (posted 9 May 2011)
- Wikipedia: Counterpoint (sculpture), citing the Smithsonian’s art inventories
- Dennis Smith Sculpture: Counter Point (undated)
- Google Street View: 200 South, Salt Lake City (July 2025)
- Image: photographer not named in our source, as published in the Street Art Utopia post; a 16:9 share image was made from it.
Last checked: 3 November 2026. How we verify art