Projects tagged with 'Sculptures'

 
 
 
  • Spanish American War Memorial, Hartford, CT

    Spanish American War Memorial, 1927, Evelyn Beatrice Longman, Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut Historical Significance On an eagle adorned ship bow, with her wings dramatically spread and torch raised upward toward….

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  • Marston Muses

    Historical Significance The 8 feet tall, Greco-Roman Marston Muses, atop the stately Engineering Building (1900), gaze over Iowa State University, Ames (ISU). The Indiana Limestone muses represent the major fields….

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  • National Iwo Jima Monument

    Historical Significance The National Iwo Jima Monument is a living memorial erected by the Iwo Jima Survivors Association in 1995. Dedicated to the 6,821 US servicemen that gave their lives….

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  • Rogers Groups

    Historical Significance John Rogers, a native of Salem, MA, first turned his hand to sculpture in the late 1840s, when he began experimenting with clay modeling. He soon developed a….

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  • Nivola Sculptures

    Historical Significance Costantinio Nivola sculpted unique cast stone sculptures incorporated into and around Morse College and Ezra Stiles College, Yale University. Architect Eero Saarinen designed the colleges in homage to….

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  • Bajnotti Fountain

    Historical Significance Designed by Enid Yandell, the Bajnotti Fountain (1899) resides in Kennedy Plaza, Providence, RI. This magnificent bronze fountain was commissioned by Paul Bajnotti, of Turin, Italy, as a….

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  • Senator Hoar Memorial

    Historical Significance The 1908 memorial to George Frisbie Hoar honors the man who helped to found the Massachusetts Republican Party in 1854.  The seated, bronze figure of Senator Hoar is….

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  • Broadway Civil War Monument

    Historical Significance The third Civil War monument erected in New Haven, CT, the Broadway Civil War Monument was dedicated in 1905 and honors the First Connecticut Light Battery, and the….

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  • General Israel Putnam

    Historical Significance General Israel Putnam was George Washington’s “right-hand man” during the Revolutionary War, and the subject the first biography written in America, Colonel David Humphrey’s “Essay on the Life….

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