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’63 Foot Soldiers

By: Joe Minter, American, born 1943

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Statue of George Washington

By: Engraved by, Angelo Bertini, Italy, born 1783 - unknown death date@After a drawing by, Giovanni Tognoli, Italy, 1786 - 1862@From the original sculpture by, Antonio Canova, Italy, 1757 - 1822

…otal annual budget was only about $90,000 at that time), the sculpture was installed in the rotunda of the State House in Raleigh on Christmas Eve 1821, where it remained until it was destroyed by fire a decade later. In 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, Washington’s close friend and brother in arms, saw the statue and approved of the “exquisite workmanship of the whole,” but privately believed the sculpture failed to capture Washington’s true liken…

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See You at the UpStairs Lounge, from “Remember the UpStairs Lounge”

By: Skylar Fein, American, born 1970

…leans’ gay bar in that city’s French Quarter, one element of a much larger installation entitled Remember the UpStairs Lounge. On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the bar, killing 32 people and injuring another 15. Although the deadliest fire in New Orleans history, newspaper coverage of the catastrophe was sensational and short-lived. Working from photographs, oral histories and written descriptions, Fein recreated the bar’s interior. Remem…

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St. Cecilia

By: Joseph Grigely, American, born 1956

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Study for “Landing of Columbus”

By: John Vanderlyn, American, 1775 - 1852

…by Congress to create historical paintings for the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. This drawing of Christopher Columbus looking heavenward is a study for Vanderlyn’s Landing of Columbus, which Congress commissioned between 1836 and 1837. Vanderlyn completed the canvas in 1842, and it was installed in the Capitol in 1847, where it remains to this day. The painting twice appeared on stamps issued by the United States Postal Service: a fifteen-cent stam…

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Mpangui jimagua (Twin Brothers)

By: José Bedia, Cuban, active United States, born 1959

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Slow Clap for Satie

By: Dennis Oppenheim, American, 1938 - 2011