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1. Statue Honors a Pioneering Black Playwright

Author

Bahr, Sarah

Subjects
Statues -- Design and construction, African American dramatists -- Appreciation, Sculptors -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

A life-size likeness of the pioneering playwright will be unveiled in June as part of a new initiative to honor her legacy. When the Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar was [...]

Published
2022

2. The general's horse wasn't manly enough, so the sculptor gave the mare a makeover

Author

Shafer, Ronald G.

Subjects
Generals -- Social aspects, Sculptors -- Works, Statues -- Design and construction, Sex change, Civil war, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Ronald G. Shafer Today controversial statues of Confederate generals are coming down across the country. But in Washington, D.C., the equestrian statue of Union Gen. Winfield Scott stirred controversy [...]

Published
2019

3. The general's horse wasn't manly enough. So the sculptor gave the mare a makeover

Author

Shafer, Ronald G.

Subjects
Horses -- Portrayals, Sculptors -- Works, Statues -- Design and construction, Generals -- Portrayals, Civil war, Sex change, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Ronald G. Shafer Today controversial statues of Confederate generals are coming down across the country. But in Washington, the equestrian statue of Union Gen. Winfield Scott stirred controversy as [...]

Published
2019

4. After DC chose a white artist for Marion Barry's statue, an unlikely friendship was forged

Author

Roberts, Roxanne

Subjects
Ex-government officials -- Appreciation, Sculptors -- Works, Statues -- Design and construction, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Roxanne Roberts WASHINGTON - When Cora Masters Barry met Steven Weitzman in 2016, she knew only two things about him. She knew that he was the artist selected by [...]

Published
2018

5. Casualty of war: a sculptor's provocative memorial acknowledges the high cost of conflict

Author

Edwards, Owen

Subjects
Sculptors -- Works, Sculptors -- Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture -- Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture -- Europe, Statues -- Design and construction
Abstract

In Venice, on the square in front of the grand Dominican Church of Saints John and Paul (Zannipoli, in the Venetian dialect), stands a colossal bronze statue of a 15th-century […]

Published
2005

6. 500 YEARS in the Making

Author

SKLAR, LISA

Subjects
Statues -- Design and construction, Sculptors -- Works, Arts, visual and performing, Design and construction, Works
Abstract

Five hundred years after its conception by a Renaissance master, a monumental bronze sculpture in the shape of a horse will be unveiled at the Frederik Meijer Gardens, a botanical [...]

Published
1999

7. TALKING PICTURE: IMAGES OF THE WORLD: THIS WEEK: ROYAL TRIBUTE

Subjects
Queens -- Family, Statues -- Design and construction, Sculptors -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

It is the Queen Mother as she is most fondly remembered. A 91/2-foot statue sculpted by Philip Jackson was unveiled by the Queen on Tuesday in front of the statue [...]

Published
2009

8. New bid to erect Columbus statue

Subjects
Statues -- Design and construction, Sculptors -- Works, Business, Economics, Business, regional
Abstract

NEW BID TO ERECT COLUMBUS STATUE. Christopher Columbus is on the move again in the New World, after numerous rejections in a nearly two-decade quest to find him a suitable [...]

Published
2010

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