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The report cites the decision by Captain Bengt Wiman, [34] age 49, to enter the ice field based on his knowledge and information available at the time as the primary reason why Explorer was so severely damaged. "He was under the mistaken impression that he was encountering first year ice, which in fact, as the Chilean Navy Report indicated, was ...
The statue depicts a minuteman stepping away from his plow to join the patriot forces at the Battle of Concord, at the start of the American Revolutionary War. The young man has an overcoat thrown over his plow, and has a musket in his hand. Nineteenth-century art historians noticed that the pose resembles that of the Apollo Belvedere. Until ...
Follow Me in front of the Infantry School. Follow Me is a United States Army memorial located at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning), Georgia.It was created in 1959 by two soldiers, Private First Class Manfred Bass, sculptor and designer, and Private First Class Karl H. Van Krog, his assistant. [1]
The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Completed in 1998, it is seen by an estimated 33 million people every year due to its proximity to the A1 and A167 roads and the East Coast Main Line. The design of the Angel, like many of Gormley's works, is based on Gormley's ...
Over time, based on a form of transmutation, the statue has been described as taking on the likeness of Wesley Everest, the lynched Wobbly from the riot, but the NRHP form does not confirm the idea. [2] The Sentinel is comparable to Lewis's Seattle doughboy sculpture in which both infantrymen are depicted with a helmet, rifle, and bandolier ...
Captain on the Helm, also known as Captain at the Helm, [1] is an outdoor bronze sculpture by Michael Martino, installed at Chicago's Navy Pier, in the U.S. state of Illinois. [2] The statue was donated by the Chicago Lodge of Shipmasters International and dedicated on May 19, 2000.
Felix Weihs de Weldon (April 12, 1907 – June 3, 2003) was an Austrian sculptor. His most famous pieces include the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954) in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, US, and the Malaysian National Monument (1966) in Kuala Lumpur.
Walker Kirtland Hancock (June 28, 1901 – December 30, 1998) was an American sculptor and teacher. He created notable monumental sculptures, including the Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial (1950–1952) at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, and the World War I Soldiers' Memorial (1936–1938) in St. Louis, Missouri.