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A locally famous monument, the 8.5-foot (2.6 m) tall "Black Angel" statue by Mario Korbel was erected in 1913 [1] as a memorial to Nicholas Feldevert. [2] The story of the Black Angel dates back to the late 19th century when Teresa Feldevert (née Karásková) moved to Iowa City from Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). Her first marriage ...
Korbel's Black Angel, 1913, Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City. Mario Joseph Korbel (March 22, 1882 – March 31, 1954) was a Czech-American sculptor. Biography.
Black Angel, a 1913 statue in Oakland Cemetery; Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, also known as the Black Angel, a sculpture in Council Bluffs, Iowa; People
And all of the main characters are Black. Affia created Universe 528, his world of sci-fi graphic novels and web-based motion comics, through his company, Sensi’il Studios , which he calls Iowa ...
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By 1905, independent historian Rachelle Chase wrote in Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa, it was "a town of 5,000 where 55 percent of the population was black." The typical Iowa coal town ...
Black Angel (1913) by Mario Korbel at Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City, Johnson County. Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City; Jones County.
This is the only work in Iowa by the American sculptor Daniel Chester French. [2] The cast bronze sculpture stands along the edge of Fairview Cemetery as a tribute to Ruth Anne Dodge, the wife of railroad magnate Grenville M. Dodge. The 8.5-foot (2.6 m) tall angel holds a water basin and is wreathed in laurel. Its pedestal is a representation ...