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Emily Kame Kngwarreye (or Emily Kam Ngwarray ) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory . [1] She is one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Australian art . [2] Aboriginal Australian artist (1910–199
Olof August Andreas Jernberg (23 May 1855, Düsseldorf - 15 February 1935, Berlin) was a German landscape and marine painter of Swedish ancestry; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule . German landscape and marine painter This article needs additional citations for verification . ( August 2021
Mária Balážová (born 31 August 1956 in Trnava , Slovakia, former Czechoslovakia) is a contemporary Slovak artist. Her practise as an artist is usually associated with new geometry, post-geometry and postmodern. Mária Balážová Born ( 1956-08-31 ) 31 August 1956 (age 66) Trnava , Slovakia Nationalit
Adriaen Backer (ca 1635, Amsterdam — buried 23 May 1684, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, active in Amsterdam and Haarlem . Dutch Golden Age portrait painter Adriaen Backer Born Adriaen Backer 1635/36 Amsterdam Died 1684 Amsterdam Nationality Netherlands Known for Painting Movem
#5 Carl Nesjar
Carl Nesjar (né Carlsen; 6 July 1920 – 23 May 2015) was a Norwegian painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He is best known for his collaborations with Pablo Picasso ; serving for nearly twenty years as Picasso's chosen fabricator — the artist who turned Picasso's drawings and scale models into large
Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo , better known as Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein , his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation o
#7 Phyllis Mark
Phyllis Mark was an American modern artist (January 20, 1921 – May 23, 2004). She was a leading proponent of kinetic sculpture , rotating indoor works on motors, outdoor works by wind or water. Mark also had an enduring interest in light. She first generated light within the work itself, using small
Carl Maria Seyppel , also Karl Maria Seyppel, (28 July 1847 – 20 November 1913) was a German genre and portrait painter , caricaturist, and writer, based in Düsseldorf . German painter Jäger Villa Elisabeth
Giacomo Grosso (23 May 1860 in Cambiano – 14 January 1938 in Turin) was an Italian painter . Selfportrait (1931). La Femme (1895) exhibited at the first Venice Biennale Italian painter (1860–1938)
François Gaspard Adam (May 23, 1710 – August 18, 1761) was a French rococo sculptor . French sculptor This article does not cite any sources . ( December 2009 ) François Gaspard Adam, Minerva A member of the Adam family of painters, François was born at Nancy , and studied under his father, Jacob-Si
Jean-Baptiste Nattier (27 September 1678, Paris - 23 May 1726, Paris) was a French history painter . French painter Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
#12 Dana Claxton
Dana Claxton (born 1959) [1] is a Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist . Her work looks at stereotypes, historical context, and gender studies of Indigenous peoples of the Americas , specifically those of the First Nations . In 2007, she was awarded an Eiteljorg Fellowship
#13 Dan C. Rizzie
Dan C. Rizzie , American artist and musician, was born in Poughkeepsie , NY on May 23, 1951 and grew up in India, Egypt, Jordan and Jamaica. Rizzie lives in Sag Harbor , New York. [1] American painter This article is an orphan , as no other articles link to it . Please introduce links to this page f
#14 Henry Gowa
Henry Gowa (25 May 1902 – 23 May 1990) was a German painter and stage designer . German painter
#15 Sonya Clark
Sonya Clark (born 1967, Washington, D.C.) is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history. [1] Her beaded headdress assemblages and braided wig series of the l
#16 Charles Gagnon
Charles Gagnon (May 23, 1934 – April 16, 2003) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his painting , photography and film. [1] Canadian artist (1934-2003) For the Quebec separatist, see Charles Gagnon (separatist) . Charles Gagnon Born ( 1934-05-23 ) May 23, 1934 Montreal , Quebec Died April
#17 Daniel Hauben
Daniel Hauben (born May 23, 1956, Bronx, NY ) is an American painter who grew up in the Bronx, and who often paints Bronx street scenes. Hauben has also painted outdoors around the world. [1] American painter This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources . ( July
#18 Ernst Gebauer
Ernst Gebauer (23 May 1782 – 7 July 1865) was a German painter. [1] His works from the War of Liberation against Napoleon 's rule are particularly well known. [2] German painter This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German . (September 2014) Click [show]
#19 Joaquim Vayreda
Joaquim Vayreda i Vila (23 May 1843 – 31 October 1894) was a Spanish landscape painter. He was originally influenced by the Barbizon school , but later became one of the founders of the Olot school . Spanish landscape painter This article needs additional citations for verification . ( August 2016 )
John Scudder (January 24, 1815 – May 23, 1869) [1] was an American master builder who was prominent in the second half of the 19th century. During his time in Savannah, Georgia , he became one of the city's "most prolific and successful antebellum builders". [2] John Scudder Quantock Row, 17–31 Jone
Château de Linardié is the name for a once active cultural center located in the South West area of France seven kilometres from Gaillac in the Tarn, France . It operated for 10 years, from 1996 to 2006. Château de Linardié
#2 Museo Canova
The Museo Canova is a museum established in 1833 at the birthplace of the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) in Possagno in the province of Treviso in the Veneto , Italy. The museum is dedicated to the life and work of the sculptor and is composed of several parts. This article uses bare UR
#3 Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ( Cooper Union [10] ) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City . Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in France. [11] [12] The school was built on a radical
The National Museum of Serbia ( Serbian : Народни музеј Србије / Narodni muzej Srbije ) is the largest and oldest museum in Belgrade , Serbia . It is located in the central zone of Belgrade on a square plot between the Republic Square , formerly Theatre Square, and three streets: Čika Ljubina, Vasin
#5 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas . The museum, founded by Alice Walton and designed by Moshe Safdie , officially opened on 11 November 2011. It offers free public admission. Art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas Crystal Bridges Museum of Ameri
#6 Bondi Beach Cultural Landscape
The Bondi Beach Cultural Landscape is a heritage-listed former Turkish baths , pavilion with dressing cubicles, dining rooms, sunbaking , shops and ballroom and now art gallery, pavilion, theatre and open air cinema located at Queen Elizabeth Drive, Bondi Beach , Waverley Municipality , Sydney , New
The Willard Gallery was a contemporary art gallery operating in New York City from 1940 until 1987. It was founded by Marian Willard Johnson. [1]
The Galerie Barbazanges was an art gallery in Paris that exhibited contemporary art between 1911 and 1928. The building was owned by a wealthy fashion designer, Paul Poiret , and the gallery was used for Poiret's "Salon d'Antin" exhibitions. The gallery showed the work of avant-garde artists such as
#9 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts , which houses significant examples of European , Asian , and American art . Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner , whose will called for
Pier 24 Photography is a non-profit art museum located on the Port of San Francisco directly under the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge . The organization houses the permanent collection of the Pilara Foundation, which collects, preserves and exhibits photography. [1] [2] It produces exhibitions, pu
The Museum der Phantasie (aka. Buchheim-Museum ) is a museum in Bernried am Starnberger See . Named after Lothar-Günther Buchheim , whose art collection it holds, it was opened to the public on 23 May 2001. Museum in Germany Buchheim-Museum The building includes a balcony that extends directly over
The Glasgow School of Art ( GSA ) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow , Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture , fine art , and design . Scottish fine art school This article needs to be updated . ( April
The Kunsthaus Bregenz (KUB) presents temporary exhibitions of international contemporary art in Bregenz , Vorarlberg ( Austria ). Contemporary art museum in Austria This article needs additional citations for verification . ( May 2011 ) Kunsthaus Bregenz Kunsthaus Bregenz Established 1990–1997 Locat
#14 Musée Carnavalet
The Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city . The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau . On the advice of Baron Haussmann , the civil servant who transformed Paris in the latter half of the 19th cen
#15 The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop
The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop (1973–2010) was an Australian photography gallery established in South Yarra , a suburb of Melbourne , and which ran almost continuously for nearly forty years. Its representation, in the 1970s and 1980s, of contemporary and mid-century, mostly American and so
The National Gallery of Art , and its attached Sculpture Garden , is a national art museum in Washington, D.C. , United States, located on the National Mall , between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 f
Clitheroe Castle Museum is located in Clitheroe , Lancashire , England, in the former Steward's House, a Grade II listed building that was built in the 18th century to house the steward of Clitheroe Castle . [1] It is a museum showing the history of the local area. [2] Clitheroe Castle Museum Clithe
#18 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , often referred to as The Guggenheim , is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously expanding collection of Impressionist , Post-Impressionist
The Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy , dedicated to the art of calligraphy, [1] is situated in Sokolniki Park , Moscow . The museum collection features calligraphy masterpieces from 65 countries. The concept was elaborated by Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Centre and the National Union of Cal
#20 Affandi Museum
The Affandi Museum is a museum located in Yogyakarta on Java , Indonesia . Art museum in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Affandi Museum Affandi's car and bike on display at his museum Location in Java Location Depok , Sleman Regency , Yogyakarta , Indonesia Coordinates 7.7827°S 110.3963°E / -7.7827; 110.396
#1 Saint Martin de Porres (sculpture)
Saint Martin de Porres is a sculpture of St Martin de Porres by American artist and Catholic priest Fr Thomas McGlynn , OP. It is one of McGlynn's most well known works and is said to have contributed to the canonization of the saint in 1962. [1] [2] Sculpture by Thomas McGlynn Saint Martin de Porre
Three Heads Six Arms ( Chinese : 三頭六臂 ; pinyin : Sān tóu liù bì ) is a sculpture by Chinese artist Zhang Huan . The work, composed of copper and steel, is 27 feet (8.2 m) tall and weighs 15 short tons (14 t) . [1] [2] [3] From May 2010 to February 2011, the sculpture was installed at the Jos
#3 Calumny of Apelles (Botticelli)
The Calumny of Apelles is a panel painting in tempera by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli . Based on the description of a lost ancient painting by Apelles , the work was completed in about 1494–95, and is now in the Uffizi , Florence . Painting by Sandro Botticelli "La Calunnia" red
The Santuario del Noce (literally, "Sanctuary of the Walnut [Tree]") is a 15th-century Roman Catholic chapel or place of worship dedicated to Anthony of Padua in Camposampiero , Veneto , Italy . Catholic chapel in Camposampiero, Italy Church in Veneto, Italy Sanctuary of the Walnut Santuario del Noc
#5 Spring exhibition (Leningrad, 1954)
Spring Fine Art Exhibition of Leningrad artists (Leningrad, 1954) ( Russian : Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1954 года ) become one of the largest Soviet Art Exhibition of 1954 and one of the first Art Exhibitions after Joseph Stalin 's death. The Exhibition took place in Le
#6 General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument
The General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument is an equestrian statue of American Civil War Major General William Tecumseh Sherman located in Sherman Plaza, which is part of President's Park in Washington, D.C. , in the United States. The selection of an artist in 1896 to design the monument was hig
Cadillac Moon is a painting created by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981. It is notable for being the first purchased Basquiat painting; bought by singer Debbie Harry for $200. [1] 1981 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat Cadillac Moon Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat Year 1981 Medium Acrylic and
The Mystical Nativity is a painting in oil on canvas dated c. 1500–1501 by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli , in the National Gallery in London. [1] [2] It is his only signed work and has an unusual iconography for a painting of the Nativity . [3] Painting by Sandro Botticelli The
The Heart of the Andes is a large oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). Painting by Frederic Edwin Church This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points . ( May 2022 ) The Heart of the Andes Artist Frederic Edw
#10 Earth's Creation
Earth's Creation is a painting by the Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye . It was painted in 1994 at Utopia, Northern Territory , north east of Alice Springs in central Australia . 1994 painting by Emily Kame Kngwarreye This article is about the painting. For the formation of the pla
#11 The Starry Night
The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh . Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence , just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village. [1] [2] [3] It
The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger . Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve , [1] after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period , in the same year Elizabeth I was born. Franny Moyle speculates that Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn , th
#13 Changi Murals
The Changi Murals are a set of five paintings of biblical theme painted by Stanley Warren , a British bombardier and prisoner-of-war (POW) interned at the Changi Prison , during the Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II (WWII). His murals were completed under difficult conditions of sickn
#14 Watery Ecstatic
Watery Ecstatic is a painting by Ellen Gallagher . It is in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri . Painting by Ellen Gallagher Watery Ecstatic Artist Ellen Gallagher Year 2003 Medium Watercolor, pencil and cut paper Dimensions 56.5 cm × 76.2 cm (22.2 in × 30.
Evening Bells ( Russian : Вечерний звон , romanized : Vecherniy zvon ) is an 1892 oil painting by the Russian artist Isaac Levitan . The painting depicts a monastery standing by a river bend in the evening light. It is thought to be a variation of an earlier painting from 1890, Quiet Abode [ ru
The Cable Street Mural is a large mural painting in Shadwell in East London . It was painted on the side of St George's Town Hall by Dave Binnington, Paul Butler, Ray Walker and Desmond Rochfort between 1979 and 1983 to commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in 1936. The original design was by Dave
The only surviving image that may depict Anne Hathaway (1555/56 - 6 August 1623), the wife of William Shakespeare , is a portrait line-drawing made by Sir Nathaniel Curzon in 1708, referred to as "Shakespear's Consort". It was probably traced from a lost Elizabethan original. The drawing is currentl
#18 List of works by Thomas Eakins
This is a list of professionally authenticated paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Thomas Eakins (1844–1916). As there is no catalogue raisonné of Eakins' works, [1] this is an aggregation of existing published catalogs. Photograph of Thomas Eakins c. 1882
#19 First Lady Michelle Obama (painting)
First Lady Michelle Obama , initially titled Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama , is a portrait of former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama , painted by the artist Amy Sherald . Unveiled in 2018, it hangs in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, D.C. The six-by-five-foot (1.8
Lise – La femme à l'ombrelle , or Lise with a Parasol , is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir , created in 1867 during his early Salon period. The full-length painting depicts model Lise Tréhot posing in a forest. She wears a white muslin dress and holds a black lac
Kamran Afshar Naderi is an Iranian architect, architectural critic, painter and artist. This article includes a list of references , related reading or external links , but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . ( May 2022 )
Anneliese Bulling (born April 21, 1900 in Ellwürden, Wesermarch (today known as Lower Saxony ), died February 9, 2004 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ), also known as Anneliese Gutkind , was a German – American art historian specializing in Chinese art and architecture . American art historian
Wolfgang Scheppe (born 23 May 1955 in Munich, Germany) is a German philosopher, author and curator who since 1996 has lived and taught in the USA, Switzerland and Italy. His work as a theorist frequently includes the medium of exhibitions taking a form described as “theory installations”. Since 2009
Benjamin Howard Hibbard, Jr. (May 23, 1928 – October 29, 1984) was an American art historian and educator. Hibbard was Professor of Italian Baroque Art at Columbia University . [1] American art historian This article uses bare URLs , which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot . ( August 2022
#5 Sergey Kuznetsov (historian)
Sergey Olegovich Kuznetsov ( Russian : Серге́й Оле́гович Кузнецо́в ; born 7 December 1960, Leningrad ) is a Russian historian and art historian, specialising in the history of the Stroganov family . Russian historian and art historian For other people with the same name, see Sergey Kuznetsov . Kuzne
Walter Passarge (born May 23, 1898 in Erfurt; † July 30, 1958 in Mannheim) was a German art historian and Director of the Städtischen Kunsthalle Mannheim . Walter Passarge (1957)
Ferdinand Alexander "Ferry" Hoogendijk (23 November 1933 – 14 February 2014) was a Dutch journalist and politician. Dutch journalist and politician Ferry Hoogendijk Hoogendijk in 1983 Member of the House of Representatives In office 23 May 2002 – 30 January 2003 Personal details Born ( 1933-11-23
Justus Brinckmann (23 May 1843 – 8 February 1915) was the first director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. [1] This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German . (December 2016) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machin
Katharine " Kay " Dorothy Honor Fremantle (born Swanbourne , [1] 23 May 1919, died 2018), [2] [3] was an English art historian, architectural historian and academic based in the Netherlands. English art historian, architectural historian and academic
#10 Paddy Kitchen
Patricia Margaret Kitchen (23 May 1934 – 23 November 2005) was an English novelist, biographer and art critic. [1] Born in Battersea to middle-class parents, she grew up in Great Missenden , Buckinghamshire. After rejecting an offer from Cambridge University she moved to London in 1954, working in a
#11 Lauritz Opstad
Jens Lauritz Opstad (5 May 1917 – 23 May 2003) was a Norwegian museum director and historian. He was born in Tune as a son of wholesaler Jens Lauritzen Opstad (1884–1963) and Laura Kristine Thune (1885–1921). He finished his secondary education in Sarpsborg in 1937 and at the University of Oslo he t
#12 Max Herz
Max Herz (born as Herz Miksa ( Ottlaka , Hungary (today Grăniceri , Romania ), 19 May 1856 – Zurich , Switzerland , 5 May 1919) Hungarian architect, conservator, museum director and architectural historian, active in Egypt . Hungarian architect (1856–1919) For the German businessman, see Max Herz (b
#13 Iordan Chimet
Iordan Chimet (November 18, 1924 – May 23, 2006) was a Romanian poet, children's writer and essayist, whose work was inspired by Surrealism and Onirism . He is also known as a memoirist, theater, art and film critic, book publisher and translator. Chimet, who was an opponent of totalitarianism in ge
#14 Vitaly Vulf
Vitaly Yakovlevich Vulf (Russian: Вита́лий Я́ковлевич Вульф, 23 May 1930 – 13 March 2011) [1] was a Russian art, drama, film critic, literary critic, translator, TV and radio broadcaster and critic. [2] [3] Vitaly Vulf
#15 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
William Craft Brumfield (born June 28, 1944) is a contemporary American historian of Russian architecture , a preservationist and an architectural photographer . Brumfield is currently Professor of Slavic studies at Tulane University . [1] William Brumfield at an April 18, 2013 event "Memory, Commem
#1 National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden is the most recent addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is located on the National Mall between the National Gallery's West Building and the Smithsonian Institution 's National Museum of Natural History . Sc
#2 Independence Monument, Kyiv
The Independence Monument is a victory column located on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv , commemorating the independence of Ukraine in 1991. Victory column in Kyiv, Ukraine Independence Monument Монумент Незалежності Independence Monument in Maidan Nezalezhnosti Coordinates 50°26
The Herndon Monument on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy is a 21-foot-tall (6.4 m) grey granite obelisk . It was erected in memory of Captain William Lewis Herndon , who died during the sinking of his ship, SS Central America , on September 12, 1857 while helping to evecuate passengers and cr
The Dewey Monument is a memorial statue in San Francisco , California , located at the center of Union Square . Union Square is bounded by Geary, Powell, Post and Stockton Streets. The monument is dedicated to Admiral George Dewey and commemorates his victory in the Battle of Manila Bay during the S
The Hiker is a statue created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson . It commemorates the American soldiers who fought in the Spanish–American War , the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine–American War . The first version of it was made for the University of Minnesota in 1906, [1] but at least 50 copies were
#6 African American Civil War Memorial Museum
The African American Civil War Memorial Museum , in the U Street district of Washington, D.C. , recognizes the contributions of the 209,145 members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT). The eponymous memorial, dedicated in July 1998 by the African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation
Theodore Roosevelt Island is an 88.5-acre (358,000 m 2 ) island and national memorial located in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. [1] [2] During the Civil War , it was used as a training camp for the United States Colored Troops . The island was given to the federal government by the Theodore
Pigs in the City is a public art initiative coordinated by Uptown Lexington, Inc., [1] a non-profit organization created to revitalize the downtown (or locally called "uptown") area of Lexington. [2] It includes an near annual event [3] held in the fall in the uptown business district of Lexington,
#9 Cubi
The Cubi series is a group of stainless steel sculptures built from cubes, rectangular solids and cylinders with spheroidal or flat endcaps. These pieces are among the last works completed by the sculptor David Smith . The artist died in a car accident on May 23, 1965, soon after the completion of C
#10 Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was a public art installation created in the moat of the Tower of London , England, between July and November 2014. It commemorated the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and consisted of 888,246 ceramic red poppies , each intended to represent one British or
#11 George Washington (Canova)
George Washington was a life-size marble statue of George Washington , done in the style of a Roman general , by the Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova . Commissioned by the State of North Carolina in 1815, it was completed in 1820 and installed in the rotunda of the North Carolina State H
A statue of John Deighton was commissioned in 1970, and was sculpted by Vern Simpson. Its location moved to various spots in Vancouver 's Gastown neighborhood, in British Columbia , Canada. [1] It was finally installed at a spot near where Deighton (also known as "Gassy Jack") had opened the Globe S
The World War II Memorial is a national memorial in the United States [1] [2] dedicated to Americans who served in the armed forces and as civilians during World War II . It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. . National memorial in Washington, D.C., US For other uses, see World War
The Frederick Lauer Monument is a monumental statue in Reading, Pennsylvania , United States. The statue was dedicated in 1885 in honor of Frederick Lauer , who was a prominent citizen and brewer from the town who served as the first president of the United States Brewers' Association . The associat
#15 The Lone Sailor
The Lone Sailor , a 1987 bronze sculpture , is a tribute to all the personnel of the sea services. The sculpture was created by Stanley Bleifeld , for the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C. Map all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML The Lone Sailor The origi
#16 Portsmouth African Burying Ground
The Portsmouth African Burying Ground is a memorial park on Chestnut Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire , United States. The memorial park sits on top of an 18th century gravesite containing almost two hundred freed and enslaved African people. [1] It is the only archeologically verified African bu
The Somerset Space Walk is a sculpture trail model of the Solar System , located in Somerset , England. The model uses the towpath of the 22-kilometre (14-mile) Bridgwater and Taunton Canal to display a model of the Sun and its planets in their proportionally correct sizes and distances apart. Unusu