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California is a mid-19th century marble sculpture. Crafted by American sculptor Hiram Powers, the marble statue is an allegory for the wealth and danger of California.The sculpture, which is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was the first sculpture by an American artist to enter the museum's collection.
Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...
The Los Angeles County Fair was canceled shortly after the 1941 fair due to the outbreak of World War II and re-opened in 1948. The 2020-21 fairs were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in California, [15] deferring, as announced in May 2021, the next fair to May 2022, citing that summer heat resulted in reduced attendance. [16]
Pages in category "Marble sculptures in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
In 2017, Karen LaMonte first displayed Cumulus, her eight-foot-tall, two-and-a-half ton sculpture of a cumulus cloud carved from Italian marble. To create the work, LaMonte collaborated with California Institute of Technology scientists to model conditions needed to create a cumulus cloud. She then replicated the resulting cloud model in marble ...
Before-and-after photographs taken along the path of the total solar eclipse in North America reveal the stunning, awe-inducing nature of the celestial phenomenon. Total solar eclipse 2024: Before ...
Powers and his autograph, c. 1863 The Greek Slave Hiram Powers (July 29, 1805 – June 27, 1873) was an American neoclassical sculptor.He was one of the first 19th-century American artists to gain an international reputation, largely based on his famous marble sculpture The Greek Slave.
Collecting marbles continued to rise in popularity throughout America after the turn of the 20th century. [9] An article written in 1936 about marbles in America mentions the popularity among children of collecting them, an early documentation of the practice. [10] Lee was born on April 18, 1933, and died on March 8, 2024, in York, Nebraska. [11]