Sculpture in the Great Outdoors at PepsiCo

by John Morris Dixon | October 22nd, 2018

Our American museums include a number of notable outdoor sculpture displays. One of our finest collections of outdoor works is not at a museum, but in the extensive, handsomely landscaped terrain surrounding the PepsiCo World Headquarters in Purchase, New York, a not-so-distant suburb of the big city. The decades following the middle of the last century – circa 1950-1970 – were when many major American corporations built new headquarters in the suburbs, where their key staff members had decided to settle. Some of our most distinguished Modern architects designed suburban offices for such companies as IBM, General Electric and AT&T. In recent decades, socio-economic changes have led our leading corporations to locate – or relocate – in urban centers that are now where most employees prefer to be. Those grand last-century offices have often been divided up for smaller tenants, converted to different uses, or demolished. PepsiCo, a maker of …