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In 1868, Hull, accompanied by a man named H.B. Martin, hired men to quarry out a 10-foot-4.5-inch-long (3.2 m) block of gypsum in Fort Dodge, Iowa, telling them it was intended for a monument to Abraham Lincoln in New York. He shipped the block to Edward Burkhardt in Chicago, a German stonecutter. Burkhardt hired two sculptors named Henry Salle ...
Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Aldershot, originally at Hyde Park Corner, by Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1846). [9] In 1838 a proposal to build a statue of Wellington resulted in the building of a giant statue of him on his horse Copenhagen, placed above the Wellington Arch at Constitution Hill in London directly outside Apsley House ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
9.3 x 8.9 x 10.2 m Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois . The sculpture, which depicts a spider , is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (9.27 x 8.91 x 10.24 metres). [ 1 ]
The Alma Mater, a bronze statue by sculptor Lorado Taft, is a beloved symbol of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The 10,000-pound statue depicts a mother-figure wearing academic robes and flanked by two attendant figures representing "Learning" and "Labor", after the university's motto "Learning and Labor."
Equestrian statue of Genghis Khan near Ulan Bator, Mongolia, completed in 2006 has a height of 40 metres (130 feet) on a 10 metres (33 feet) high base. Marjing Polo Statue in Marjing Polo Complex, Imphal East, Manipur - 122 feet (37 m), [a] [7] [8] completed in 2022–23, is the world's tallest equestrian statue of a polo player [9] [10 ...
Stands upon a 1.7 m (5.6 ft) pedestal. Total monument height: 9.1 m (30 ft) [57] Pioneer Woman: 5.2: 17: Bryant Baker: 1930: Ponca City, Oklahoma: bronze on granite bass: The sculptor was chosen by the museum-going public following a touring exhibition of the 12 proposed models. Air Force Honor Guard: 5.2: 17: Zenos Frudakis: 2006: United ...
8 ft × 28 in × 33 in Milwaukee County Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture Depicts a mother and children [29] Polyphony: UWM Union: 1963 () Egon Weiner: abstract: bronze: 10 ft 5 in × 10 ft 5 in × 5 ft 4 in University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee [30] Woodland Indian and Whistling Swans: Milwaukee Public Museum