langs: 8 июня [ru] / june 8 [en] / 8. juni [de] / 8 juin [fr] / 8 giugno [it] / 8 de junio [es]
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Robert Frederick Blum (9 July 1857 – 8 June 1903) was an American artist . He was one of the youngest members of the National Academy of Design and was President of the Painters in Pastel and a member of the Society of American Artists and the American Watercolor Society . American artist Robert Fre
#2 Jessicka
Jessicka Addams (born Jessica Fodera on October 23, 1975) is an American singer and visual artist. Best known by her stage name Jessicka , she was the frontwoman of Florida-based band Jack Off Jill and current front for the Los Angeles-based band Scarling. American singer Jessicka Jessicka in 2004 B
Cruzeiro Seixas , full name Artur Manuel Rodrigues do Cruzeiro Seixas (December 3, 1920 – November 8, 2020), was a "man who paints" (the designation of "painter" annoyed him) and a Portuguese poet. [1] [2] [3] [4] Portuguese artist and poet (1920–2020) Some of this article's listed sources may not b
#4 Lou Ros
Lou Ros (born 1984) is a French painter. [1] [2] Ros is known for his figurative-come-expressionist and abstract art . He is a notable exponent of the figurative expressionist Movement. [3] [4] [5] French painter Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable . ( February 2021 ) Lou Ros B
Daniel Charles Grose (1832 – 1900) was a prolific Canadian-American painter of the Hudson River School who was active between 1864 and 1900. Primarily known for his pastoral landscapes, on occasion he also created marine views. Somewhat at variance from these were his scenes of India , perhaps the m
#6 Víctor Patricio de Landaluze
Víctor Patricio de Landaluze (1828 - 8 June 1889), [1] [2] was a Spanish -born painter active for much of his career in Cuba . Spanish painter Cutting sugar cane Oil on canvas,1874
#7 Mily Possoz
Mily Possoz , sometimes written as Milly (1888 – 1968), was a Portuguese artist of Belgian origin. She was one of the most prominent figures of the first generation of Portuguese modernist artists. Portuguese modernist painter and engraver Mily Possoz Born Émilia Possoz ( 1888-12-04 ) December 4,
#8 Emil Mayer
Dr. Emil Mayer FRPS (October 3, 1871 – June 8, 1938) was an Austrian photographer , lawyer, inventor, and businessperson. Dr. Emil Mayer FRPS Portrait of Dr. Emil Mayer Born October 3, 1871 Neubydzow, Bohemia Died 8 June 1938 (1938-06-08) (aged 66) Vienna , Austria Nationality Austrian Education U
Lauren Crazybull is an Edmonton-based Blackfoot Dene visual artist and Alberta's first provincial Artist in Residence. As a self-taught artist, Crazybull has taken interest in and almost exclusively explores Indigenous representation. She is increasingly known for her colourful and attention grabbin
#10 Morley Roberts
Morley Charles Roberts (29 December 1857 – 8 June 1942) [1] was an English novelist and short story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland . Morley Roberts Morley Roberts in 1907 Born Morley Roberts ( 1857-12-29 ) 29 December 1857 London, United Kingdom Died 8 June 1942 (1942-06-0
#11 Thomas Faed
Thomas Faed RSA (1826–1900) was a Scottish painter who is said [ by whom? ] to have done for Scottish art what Robert Burns did for Scottish song . [1] 19th-century Scottish painter Thomas Faed (1887) by John Pettie Burns and Highland Mary by Thomas Faed c. 1850 Faults on Both Sides (1861) Tate Gall
#12 Robert R. Wark
Robert R. Wark (7 October 1924 – 8 June 2007) was a Canadian art historian who was curator of Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens from 1956 to 1990. He is known for editing the authoritative 1959 edition of Joshua Reynolds's Discourses on Art . Canadian art historian and curato
#13 Annie Haslam
Annie Haslam (born 8 June 1947) is an English vocalist, songwriter and painter. She is best known as the lead singer of progressive rock band Renaissance since 1971, and for her long and diverse solo singing career. She has a five-octave vocal range . [1] From 2002, Haslam has developed a parallel c
Zwelethu Mthethwa (born 1960) is a South African painter and photographer. He was convicted of murder in 2017, and is currently incarcerated at Pollsmoor Prison . [1] South African painter and photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Born 1960 Durban , South Africa Nationality South African Education Michaeli
#15 Eric Ravilious
Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in Sussex , and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with
#16 Robert Juvin
Robert Juvin (1921–2005) was a French sculptor who worked in stone and concrete, and is known for his mounted wall reliefs. French sculptor Robert Juvin Born 1921 Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine Died ( 2005-12-22 ) 22 December 2005 Menton , France Nationality French Occupation Sculptor
#17 Trygve Rovelstad
Trygve A. Rovelstad (September 27, 1903 – June 8, 1990) was an American sculptor and medal designer. [1] American sculptor Trygve A. Rovelstad Born ( 1903-09-27 ) September 27, 1903 Elgin , Illinois , U.S. Died June 8, 1990 (1990-06-08) (aged 86) Nationality American Known for Sculpture and meda
#18 Tobeen
Tobeen (Bordeaux, July 20, 1880 - Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, March 1938) is the pseudonym of the French artist Félix Bonnet . French painter Tobeen Pelotaris, 1912 Born Félix Bonnet ( 1880-07-20 ) July 20, 1880 Bordeaux , France Died March 14, 1938 (1938-03-14) (aged 57) Saint-Valery-sur-Somme Nation
#19 Jacques Sarazin
Jacques Sarazin [1] or Sarrazin ( baptised 8 June 1592 in Noyon [2] – died 3 December 1660 in Paris ) was a French sculptor in the classical tradition of Baroque art . He was instrumental in the development of the Style Louis XIV through his own work as well as through his many pupils. [2] Nearly al
#20 Gershon Iskowitz
Gershon Iskowitz RCA (November 21, 1921 – January 26, 1988) was a Canadian artist of Jewish background originally from Poland. Iskowitz was a Holocaust survivor of the Kielce Ghetto , who was liberated at Buchenwald . The circumstances of his early life—the trauma of the Holocaust and the uncertaint
Strule Arts Centre ( Irish : Ionad Ealaíne na Sruthaile ; Ulster-Scots : Strule Hoose o Airts ) is a multi-purpose arts venue in Omagh , County Tyrone , Northern Ireland . [1] The Omagh tourist information office is located on the ground floor. The centre is owned and run by Omagh District Council .
#2 Baksı Museum
Baksı Museum is a museum located in Bayburt , Turkey . “Baksı” literally means “healer, helper, protector” in the West Asia . The museum offers contemporary art and traditional handcrafts. The basic aim of the foundation is, as quoted by founder Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, to "disseminate art and cu
Castlemaine Art Museum is an Australian art gallery and museum in Castlemaine, Victoria in the Shire of Mount Alexander . It was founded in 1913. It is housed in a 1931 Art Deco building constructed for the purpose, heritage-listed by the National Trust. [1] Its collection concentrates on Australian
#4 KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art is located in Aalborg , Denmark , on Kong Christians Allé near its junction with Vesterbro. [2] Of a modern Scandinavian design, it was built between 1968 and 1972 by Finnish architects Elissa and Alvar Aalto and Danish architect Jean-Jacques Baruël. It was completed on
The Isaacs Art Center is an art museum and retail gallery in Waimea on the Island of Hawaii . It is operated by and for the benefit of the Hawaii Preparatory Academy ; all proceeds benefit the school's scholarship fund. [2] Art museum in Waimea, Hawaii, United States Isaacs Art Center Exterior view
The Bucerius Kunst Forum is an international exhibition centre in Hamburg , Germany, founded in 2002 through the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius foundation. It is named after Gerd Bucerius and his wife, and located directly beside the Hamburg Rathaus . The exhibition centre shows 3 - 4 exhibi
#7 Museum of Fine Arts of São Paulo
The Museum of Fine Arts of São Paulo ( MuBA ) is a university museum located in the neighborhood of Vila Mariana , in the city of São Paulo , Brasil . It opened on September 23, 2007 and was officially registered on April 14, 2008. The museum is connected to the Fine Arts University Center of São Pa
The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) is one of the principal U.S. art museums , with paintings , sculptures , cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from all corners of the world. Its three-story building stands in Forest Park in St. Louis , Missouri , where it is visited by up to a half million pe
#9 Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education at New York University . ISAW's mission is to cultivate comparative, connective investigations of the ancient world from the western Mediterranean to China . [1] Areas of specia
#10 Koffler Centre of the Arts
The Koffler Centre of the Arts is a broad-based cultural institution established in 1977 by Murray and Marvelle Koffler and based at Artscape Youngplace in the West Queen West area of downtown Toronto , Ontario . [1] Koffler Centre of the Arts Location of the Koffler in Toronto Established 1977 Loca
#11 Creux de l'Enfer
The Creux de l'Enfer is a contemporary art center located in Thiers , France. It opened in 1988 in a former cutlery factory which closed in 1956. [1] French art gallery This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French . (October 2020) Click [show] for import
Pinacotheca was a gallery in Melbourne , Australia. Established in 1967 by Bruce Pollard, it was ideologically committed to the avant-garde and represented a new generation of artists interested in post-object, conceptual [1] and other non-traditional art forms. [2] Art gallery located in Melbourne,
The Institute of Modern Art ( IMA ) is a public art gallery located in the Judith Wright Arts Centre in the Brisbane inner-city suburb of Fortitude Valley , which features contemporary artworks and showcases emerging artists in a series of group and solo exhibitions. Founded in 1975, the gallery doe
The Carmel Art Association (CAA) is a Not-for-profit arts organization and gallery located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California . The CAA is Carmel's oldest gallery. It features the work of many local artists living on the Monterey Peninsula . Many of its members were early California artists. The CAA i
The Foosaner Art Museum , formerly the Brevard Art Museum , was located along the Indian River in the Eau Gallie Arts District , 1463 Highland Avenue, Melbourne , Florida . Since opening in 1978 the Foosaner Art Museum amassed over 5,000 objects, spanning 20 centuries. These items formed the Museum'
Tsaritsyno ( Russian : Царицыно , IPA: [tsɐˈrʲitsɨnə] , literal meaning " Tsaritsa 's property") is a palace museum and park reserve in the south of Moscow . For other uses, see Tsaritsyno (disambiguation) . Tsaritsyno Царицыно Location within Moscow Established 1775 It was founded in the 1775 as
#17 Hasted Kraeutler
Hasted Hunt was a contemporary art gallery located in Chelsea, New York City at 537 West 24th Street. The gallery was founded in 2005 by founding partner Sarah Hasted and W.M. Hunt. Hasted Hunt Gallery represented emerging and established artists from around the world. The addition of two painters a
#18 Decima Gallery
Decima Gallery (also Decima Projects , Decima International Arts or Decima ) is a London-based arts projects organisation with a reputation for irreverent projects. [1] It is owned and managed by David West, [1] [2] [3] [4] Alex Chappel, [1] [2] [4] [5] Larry McGinity [5] and Mark Reeves. [4] [5] A
Velasquez Gallery, also known as Velasquez Gallery at Tye's, and later Tye's Art Gallery, was a Melbourne art gallery that showed contemporary traditional, and later, modernist Australian art, including some sculpture and prints, as well as Australian indigenous art. It operated from 1940 to 1955. [
The Walther Collection is a private non-profit organization dedicated to researching, collecting, exhibiting, and publishing modern and contemporary photography and video art . The collection has two exhibition spaces: the Walther Collection in Neu-Ulm /Burlafingen, in Germany, and the Walther Colle
#1 Le Départ des poilus, août 1914
Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 (French: Departure of the Infantrymen, August 1914 ) is a monumental mural by the American artist Albert Herter . The painting measures 12 by 5 metres (39 ft × 16 ft) and is displayed at the Gare de l'Est railway station in Paris , where it is suspended some 7 m
#2 Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)
Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse) is a painting executed by artist Leonora Carrington and is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . [1] [2] [3] She began the painting in London in 1937 and completed it in Paris in 1938. [4] It is one of her most recognized works and has
Twilight in the Wilderness is an 1860 oil painting by American painter Frederic Edwin Church . The woodlands of the northeastern United States are shown against a setting sun that intensely colors the dramatic altocumulus clouds . Church scholar John K. Howat describes the painting as "one of his fi
#4 John Howard Van Amringe (sculpture)
John Howard Van Amringe , also known as the Van Amringe Memorial , is an outdoor bust depicting the American educator and mathematician of the same name , installed at Van Amringe Quadrangle on the Columbia University campus in Upper Manhattan , New York City . It was sculpted by William Ordway Part
L'Arlésienne , L'Arlésienne : Madame Ginoux , or Portrait of Madame Ginoux is the title given to a group of six similar paintings by Vincent van Gogh , painted in Arles , November 1888 (or later), and in Saint-Rémy , February 1890. L'Arlésienne ( French pronunciation: [laʁlezjɛn] ) means liter
#6 Venus and Mars (Botticelli)
Venus and Mars (or Mars and Venus ) is a panel painting of about 1485 by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli . [2] It shows the Roman gods Venus , goddess of love, and Mars , god of war, in an allegory of beauty and valour. The youthful and voluptuous couple recline in a forest setting
The Rhinebeck panorama is panoramic view of London dated to 1806–7. The work was found in Rhinebeck, New York in 1941, in the attic of a house, being used to line a barrel of pistols . It was acquired by the Museum of London in 1998.
The Weeping Woman (French: La Femme qui pleure [1] ) is a series of oil on canvas [2] paintings by Pablo Picasso , the last of which was created in late 1937. The paintings depict Dora Maar , Picasso's mistress and muse. The Weeping Woman paintings were produced by Picasso in response to the bombing
#9 Monument to the heroes of Puente Sampayo
The Monument to the Heroes of Puente Sampayo is a memorial and sculptural group created by the Spanish sculptor Julio González Pola, [1] in Pontevedra , Spain. Sculptural group in Pontevedra, Spain Monumento a los Héroes de Puente Sampayo The Monument in 2017 Artist Julio González Pola Completion da
Our Lady of Łukawiec (Polish: Matka Boża Łukawiecka), earlier Our Lady of Tartaków (Polish: Matka Boża Tartakowska), also known as Our Lady Full of Graces (Polish: Matka Boża Łaskawa) is a Roman Catholic icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary. [1] Our Lady of Łukawiec (Our Lady of Tartaków) Polish: Matka B
#11 The Aviator (Charlottesville, Virginia)
The Aviator is a historical sculpture located on the University of Virginia campus near Charlottesville , Albemarle County, Virginia . Sculpture on the campus of the University of Virginia, USA The Aviator Artist Gutzon Borglum Year 1918 Type Bronze Dimensions 4,400 cm × 3,400 cm (144 ft ×
The Painting of the Six Kings is a fresco found on the wall of Qasr Amra , a desert castle of the Umayyad Caliphate located in modern-day Jordan . It depicts six rulers standing in two rows of three. [2] [3] Four of the six have inscriptions in Arabic and Greek identifying them as the Byzantine empe
#13 18. Oktober 1977
18. Oktober 1977 is the title of a series of paintings by Gerhard Richter . It is based on photographs that document the deaths of three leading terrorists of the Baader-Meinhof Group in the Stammheim Prison after the release of the hostages in the hijacking by four members of the Popular Front for
#14 Church-Goers Arriving by Boat at the Parish Church of Leksand on Siljan Lake
Church-Goers Arriving by Boat at the Parish Church of Leksand on Siljan Lake , Sweden ( Danish : Kirkefærd i Dalarne i Sverige. Til Leksands sognekirke i Dalarne kommer folket i deres store kirkebåde over Siljansøen om søndagen til gudstjeneste ), is an oil on canvas painting by Wilhelm Marstrand .
#15 United Daughters of the Confederacy Monument (Cleveland, Tennessee)
The United Daughters of the Confederacy Monument is a Confederate monument in Cleveland, Tennessee owned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy . It was sculpted in 1910 and installed in 1911. Monument in Cleveland, Tennessee, United States United Daughters of the Confederacy Monument Year 1910
#16 Francis Horner
Francis Horner FRSE (12 August 1778 – 8 February 1817) was a Scottish Whig politician, journalist, lawyer and political economist. Francis Horner Francis Horner by Henry Raeburn . Member of Parliament for St Mawes In office 1813–1817 Member of Parliament for Wendover In office 1807 – 1812 Member of
#17 The Foundation of Perth 1829
The Foundation of Perth 1829 is a 1929 oil-on-canvas painting by George Pitt Morison . It depicts a reconstruction of the ceremony by which the town of Perth , Western Australia was founded on 12 August 1829. Morison painted the work as part of Western Australia 's centenary celebrations, and pres
#18 Houses at Auvers
Houses at Auvers is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh . It was created towards the end of May or beginning of June 1890, shortly after he had moved to Auvers-sur-Oise , a small town northwest of Paris , France. Painting by Vincent van Gogh Houses at Auvers Artist Vincent van Gogh Year Auvers-sur-O
The Great Day of Girona , originally El gran dia de Girona ( Catalan pronunciation: [əl ˈɣɾan ˈdi.ə ðə ʒiˈɾonə] ), is a large oil painting (4.96 × 10.82 m) by Ramon Martí Alsina depicting an important victory of Girona 's defenders over the French during the Third Siege of Girona in 1809. Complete
Starry Night is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1850 and retouched in 1865. It is one of Millet's few painting that is exclusively a landscape and is currently on view at the Yale University Art Gallery , in New Haven . [1] Painting by Jean-François Millet Starry Night French: N
#1 Hu Feng
Hu Feng ( Chinese : 胡风 ; pinyin : Hú Fēng , November 2, 1902 – June 8, 1985) was a Chinese Marxist writer , poet and literary theorist . He was a prominent member of the League of Left-Wing Writers . After the founding of the People's Republic of China , Hu Feng became a member of the First National
Mable Burton Ringling (March 14, 1875 – June 8, 1929) was an art collector who with her husband created the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art . Mable Burton Ringling Born ( 1875-03-14 ) March 14, 1875 Moons, Ohio, United States Died June 8, 1929 (1929-06-08) (aged 54) Nationality American Occu
Constantin Stăncescu (20 October 1837, Bucharest – 8 June 1909, Bucharest) was a Romanian painter, art critic, teacher and translator. This article relies largely or entirely on a single source . ( July 2022 ) Constantin Stăncescu (date unknown)
Gayatri Sinha is an art critic and curator based in New Delhi, India. Her primary areas of research are around the structures of gender and iconography, media, economics and social history. She founded Critical Collective , a forum for thinking about conceptual frames within art history and practice
Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( / ˈ v ɪ ŋ k əl ˌ m ɑː n / ; [4] German: [ˈvɪŋkl̩man] ; 9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist . [5] He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek , Greco-Roman and Roman art . "The prophet and foun
Nicolete Gray (sometimes Nicolette Gray ) (20 July 1911 – 8 June 1997) [1] was a British scholar of art and calligraphy . She was the youngest daughter of the poet, dramatist and art scholar Laurence Binyon and his wife, writer, editor and translator Cicely Margaret Pryor Powell. [3] In 1933, she ma
Darya " Dasha " Alexandrovna Zhukova ( Russian : Дарья "Даша" Александровна Жукова ; born 8 June 1981) is a Russian-American art collector, businesswoman, magazine editor, and socialite. She is the founder of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Garage Magazine . Russian art collector, business
#8 Alf Bøe
Alf Bøe (8 September 1927 – 8 June 2010) was a Norwegian art historian, educator, curator and author. [1] For other people named Alf Boe, see Alf Boe (disambiguation) .
Pierre Francastel (8 June 1900 – 2 January 1970) was a French art historian , best known for his use of sociological method . French art historian Francastel's initial period of study was in literature, at the Sorbonne . He worked in building conservation at Versailles while undertaking research tow
#10 Michael Levey
Sir Michael Vincent Levey , LVO , FBA , FRSL (8 June 1927 – 28 December 2008) was an English art historian and was the director of the National Gallery from 1973 to 1986. This article is about the British art historian. For the American television personality, see Mike Levey .
#11 Joan Evans (art historian)
Dame Joan Evans DBE FSA (22 June 1893 – 14 July 1977) [1] was a British historian of French and English mediaeval art , especially Early Modern and medieval jewellery . Her notable collection was bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. [2] British art historian
#12 Xavier Dectot
Xavier Dectot , born on ( 1973-06-08 ) June 8, 1973 in Pithiviers , is a French museum curator and art historian . French curator and art historian Xavier Dectot Xavier Dectot en 2013. Born ( 1973-06-08 ) June 8, 1973 (age 48) Pithiviers Nationality France Awards Fellow of the Society of Antiquari
#13 Matthew Drutt
Matthew Joseph Williams Drutt (born December 8, 1962) is an American curator and writer who specializes in modern and contemporary art and design. Based in New York, he has operated Drutt Creative Arts Management (DCAM) since 2013. He has worked with the Beyeler Foundation in Switzerland (2013–2015)
#14 Helen Ogilvie
Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie (4 May 1902, in Corowa – 1 August 1993, in Melbourne ) was a twentieth-century Australian artist and gallery director, cartoonist, painter, printmaker and craftworker, best known for her early linocuts and woodcuts, and her later oil paintings of vernacular colonial buildings
Jacques Van Melkebeke (12 December 1904 – 8 June 1983) was a Belgian painter , journalist , writer, and comic strip writer. He was the first chief editor of Tintin magazine and wrote scripts and articles anonymously for many of their publications. [1] Belgian painter, comic strip writer and journali
#1 Gateway Arch
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri , United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch , [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible building . Some sources consider it the tallest human-ma
A memorial to the English Quaker , abolitionist and activist Joseph Sturge (1793–1859) was unveiled before a crowd of 12,000 people on 4 June 1862 at Five Ways , Birmingham, England, near his former home. [1] The statue has been grade II listed since 8 June 1982. [1] [2] [3] Statue to Joseph Sturge
The Virginia Monument [1] is a Battle of Gettysburg memorial to the commonwealth 's "Sons at Gettysburg" (Battlefield) with a bronze statue of Robert E. Lee on his horse Traveller and a " bronze group of figures representing the Artillery, Infantry, and Cavalry of the Confederate Army ". [2] : '17
#4 Confederate Memorial (Arlington National Cemetery)
The Confederate Memorial is a memorial in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia , in the United States, that commemorates members of the armed forces of the Confederate States of America who died during the American Civil War . Authorized in March 1906, former Confederate soldier
#5 Monument to the Unknown Hero
The Monument to the Unknown Hero ( Serbian : Споменик Незнаном јунаку , romanized : Spomenik Neznanom junaku ) is a World War I memorial located atop Mount Avala , south-east of Belgrade , Serbia , and designed by the sculptor Ivan Meštrović . [1] The memorial was built in 1934-1938 [1] on the pla
The Princeton Battle Monument is located in Princeton, New Jersey , adjacent to Morven and Princeton's borough hall. The Monument commemorates the January 3, 1777 Battle of Princeton , and depicts General George Washington leading his troops to victory and the death of General Hugh Mercer . It stand
#7 Protection of the Flag Monument
The Protection of the Flag Monument (also known as the "Defense of the Flag Monument") is a historic war memorial located in Academy Park at 715 South Main Street in Athens , Bradford County, Pennsylvania . Designed in the Classical Revival style by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White , with
A statue of Alexander Wood was erected in Toronto , Ontario, Canada, by the Church Wellesley Village Business Improvement Area (CWVBIA) and the municipal government of Toronto on May 28, 2005. Designed and constructed by artist Del Newbigging , the 244-centimetre-tall (8 ft) bronze sculpture was i
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C. , honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War . The two-acre (8,100 m 2 ) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or rema
#10 Statue of Douglas MacArthur (Milwaukee)
General Douglas MacArthur is a public artwork by American artist Robert L. Dean, a 1953 graduate of the United States Military Academy (West Point, NY). Previously, the statue was located in MacArthur Square in the Milwaukee Civic Center Plaza, downtown Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA. On June 7, 2014,
#11 Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain
The Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain is a memorial fountain in President's Park in Washington, D.C. , in the United States. Dedicated in October 1913, it commemorates the deaths of Archibald Butt (the military aide to President William Howard Taft ) and Francis Davis Millet (a journalist and painter, a
#12 Monuments and memorials in Canada removed in 2020–2022
A number of monuments and memorials in Canada were removed as a result of protests between 2020 and 2022. These included six sculptures of Sir John A. Macdonald , the first prime minister of Canada , three of other figures connected to the Canadian Indian residential school system ( Alexander Wood ,
#13 John B. Castleman Monument
The John B. Castleman Monument , within the Cherokee Triangle of Louisville, Kentucky , was unveiled on November 8, 1913. [2] The model, selected from a competition to which numerous sculptors contributed, was designed by R. Hinton Perry of New York. The statue was erected to honor John Breckinridge
#14 Serra Cross
The Serra Cross , sometimes also known as the Cross on the Hill or the Grant Park Cross , is a Christian cross on a hill known as "La Loma de la Cruz" in Ventura, California . The site is in Serra Cross Park, a one-acre parcel within the larger Grant Park that overlooks downtown Ventura, the Santa B
The Branting Monument is a monument in Stockholm , Sweden , with a statue of the Swedish Social Democratic leader Hjalmar Branting (1860 – 1925). The monument is 5 meters tall and 6 meters wide. Monument in Stockholm, Sweden This article does not cite any sources . ( September 2016 ) The Branting Mo
#16 Equestrian statue of John Brown Gordon
The equestrian statue of John Brown Gordon is a monument on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta , Georgia , United States . The monument, an equestrian statue , honors John Brown Gordon , a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War who later become a politi
Nathan Hale is an artistic work which was unveiled by the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York during the celebration of Evacuation Day (New York) , November 25, 1893. [1] It originally stood at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street in Manhattan. Currently it is located at the steps
The Macdonald Monument ( French : Monument à Sir John A. Macdonald ) is a monument to John A. Macdonald , first Prime Minister of Canada , by sculptor George Edward Wade (1853-1933), located at Place du Canada in Montreal , Quebec , Canada. Former monument in Montreal Macdonald Monument Monument à S
#19 Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
Since the 1960s, many municipalities in the United States have removed monuments and memorials on public property dedicated to the Confederate States of America (CSA; the Confederacy), and some, such as Silent Sam in North Carolina, have been torn down by protestors. Efforts to remove Confederate me
#20 Statue of Robert Burns (Milwaukee)
The statue of Robert Burns (also known as the Burns Monument ) in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , is a work of public art by the Scottish artist William Grant Stevenson , RSA. The bronze statue, of the Scottish national poet Robert Burns , stands on a plinth of Nova Scotia pink granite with two bronze bas r