by Susan | Jul 15, 2019 | Monuments
The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace are bronze statue groups on Lincoln Memorial Circle in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C.. Commissioned in 1929 to complement the plaza constructed on the east side of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the Arlington Memorial...
by Susan | Jul 8, 2019 | Monuments
Apotheosis of Democracy is on the United States Capitol House of Representatives portico’s east front in Washington, D.C. The pediment’s center focal point is the figure of allegorical Peace, which is dressed in armor and is depicted protecting Genius....
by Susan | Jul 1, 2019 | Monuments
Installed on the south side exterior of Philadelphia’s Independence Visitor’s Center in 2003, Alison Sky’s Indelible is a site-specific, narrative work intended to create awareness about American history that has gone undisclosed. The artwork is a stucco relief of a...
by Susan | Jun 24, 2019 | Monuments
In September 2017 the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines unveiled a statue of the late human rights lawyer Jose “Pepe” Diokno, appointed by President Corazon Aquino as the founding chairman of the country’s watchdog agency against rights...
by Susan | Jun 17, 2019 | Monuments
Thomas Paine, philosopher of the American and French Revolutions, author of “Common Sense,” has been a controversial figure when it comes to monuments. In 1942 a Paine statue was proposed for Fairmount Park in Philadelphia but the idea was shot down because his book...
by Susan | Jun 10, 2019 | Monuments
A Quaker at a time when Quakers were banned from Massachusetts, Dyer was eventually hanged for her insistence on religious liberty in the English colony. The statue by Sylvia Shaw Judson went up in 1959 at a descendant’s bequest. It’s diagonally across...
