A second casting of J. Seward Johnson’s undeniably eye-catching 4,100-pound struggling sculpture, “The Awakening,” has been permanently installed in a grassy expanse in Chesterfield, Missouri. The grasping giant was added to Chesterfield Arts’ public art collection and will be available for perpetual public gaping and climbing, forever frozen in an angry state, quite annoyed at […]
In late 2007, sculptor Stan Watts finally erected his large statue of three 18-foot-tall firefighters raising a U.S. flag above the rubble of the World Trade Center — literally, with real rubble from Ground Zero scattered at their feet. Watts had worked on the sculpture for five years. The 8-ton bronze, titled To Lift A […]
Since 1994, an 11-foot-long, 1,800-pound tombstone carved to resemble a logging truck has been an attraction at the Salisbury Monument Co. in Salisbury, Maryland. “We were on a buying trip in Elberton, Georgia,” recalled Wanda Disharoon, “on a back road in a little town named Dewey Rose. And there in front of a house was […]
