Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Wall of Death is a permanently sited public art installation [3] located under the University Bridge in Seattle, alongside the Burke-Gilman Trail and NE 40th Street in the University District. It was designed and built by Mowry Baden and his son, Colin, in 1993.
Horiuchi Mural, also known as Seattle Mural, [1] is a mural by Paul Horiuchi in Seattle Center, in Seattle, Washington. It was commissioned for the Century 21 Exposition (1962) and was billed as the largest artwork in the Pacific Northwest.
The Horiuchi Mural is installed at Seattle Center. West Seattle has 11 outdoor murals that were created in the early 1990s and restored in 2018. [5] [6] Black Lives Matter street murals were painted in Capitol Hill and outside Seattle City Hall in 2020 and 2021, respectively. The People's Wall is located in the city's Central District.
The building was torn down very shortly thereafter, but as of 2023 the retaining wall and mural remain. The mural was retouched in 2008 by Seattle artist Eddie Walker. [2] The wall is dedicated to nine fallen Panthers: Sydney Miller, Welton Butch Armstead, Albert Postel, Larry War, Lewis Jackson, Maud Allen, Carolyn Downs, Jim Graves and Henry ...
The wall of death, motordrome, velodrome [3] or well of death is a carnival sideshow featuring a silo- or barrel-shaped wooden cylinder, typically ranging from 20 to 36 feet (6.1 to 11.0 m) in diameter and made of wooden planks, inside which motorcyclists, or the drivers of miniature automobiles and tractors travel along the vertical wall and ...
The 10-ton slab of granite used in Seattle's memorial was shipped to Seattle via the Panama Canal from Georgia's Stone Mountain by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1926. The President of the UDC Robert E. Lee Chapter #885 and Washington Division at the time, Mrs. May Avery Wilkins, who was originally from Georgia, is credited with ...
Naramore Fountain is a fountain and sculpture by George Tsutakawa, installed in Seattle. [1] [2] [3]According to HistoryLink, the work "was unusual in its display: The fountain was placed above eye level on a concave platform of rocks quarried from the Cascade Mountains, which gave the effect of a flowing mountain stream."
Adam is a bronze sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, installed outside Seattle's Federal Reserve Bank Building at the intersection of 2nd and Madison, in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] The statue is approximately 12 feet tall and covered in a brown patina.