art.wikisort.org - Sculpture

A 1953 statue of George S. Patton by James Earle Fraser (sometimes called General George Smith Patton, Jr.) is installed along Boston's Charles River Esplanade, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

Statue of George S. Patton
The statue in 2019
Artist	James Earle Fraser
Year	1953 (1953)
Medium	Bronze sculpture
Subject	George S. Patton
Coordinates	42°21′25.1″N 71°4′24.4″W

Description and history

The bronze sculpture measures approximately 8 x 3 x 3 ft., and rests on a pink granite base that measures approximately 4 x 10 x 7 ft. It commemorates the general's June 7, 1945 address delivered from the Hatch Memorial Shell before a crowd of 20,000.[1]

The work was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1997.[2]

See also

• 1953 in art

References

External links

• Media related to Statue of George S. Patton (Boston) at Wikimedia Commons

---