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The Eternal Indian, sometimes called the Black Hawk Statue, is a 48-foot (14.6 m) sculpture by Lorado Taft located in Lowden State Park, near the city of Oregon, Illinois. Dedicated in 1911, the statue is perched over the Rock River on a 77-foot (23.5 m) bluff overlooking the city.
Lowden State Park was one of eleven state parks slated to close indefinitely on November 1, 2008, due to budget cuts by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. [7] After delay, which restored funding for some of the parks, a proposal to close seven state parks and a dozen state historic sites, including Lowden, went ahead on November 30, 2008. [8]
Lorado Zadok Taft (April 29, 1860 – October 30, 1936) was an American sculptor, writer and educator. [1] Part of the American Renaissance movement, his monumental pieces include, Fountain of Time, Spirit of the Great Lakes, and The Eternal Indian.
One of the statues in the collection is a 4-foot (1.2-m) plaster study of The Eternal Indian by Lorado Taft. It was completed in 1908 as he prepared to create the Black Hawk Statue at the original site of the Eagle's Nest Colony. The entire permanent collection consists of 32 paintings and 32 sculptures from Eagle's Nest artists. [2]
The Eternal Indian, a sculpture by Lorado Taft inspired by Black Hawk. A sculpture by Lorado Taft overlooks the Rock River in Oregon, Illinois. Entitled The Eternal Indian, this statue is commonly known as the Black Hawk Statue. [52] In modern times Black Hawk is considered a tragic hero and numerous commemorations exist. [10]
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On August 7, 1951, Illinois governor Adlai E. Stevenson II signed a bill into law which transferred ownership of a 66-acre (27 ha) section of Lowden State Park to the college, now Northern Illinois University (NIU). [8] The land encompassed the former 15-acre (6.1 ha) site of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony and its buildings.