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The National Statuary Hall Collection comprises 60 statues of bronze and 39 of marble. Several sculptors have created multiple statues for the collection, the most prolific being Charles Henry Niehaus who sculpted eight statues currently and formerly in the collection.
Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Center. The 1857 plaster cast of the Statue of Freedom is in the center flanked by stairs which lead to the Capitol itself. Emancipation Hall is the main hall of the CVC and measures in at 20,000 square feet (1,900 m 2). [12]
The United States Capitol. The statue crowning the dome, Statue of Freedom, is over 19 feet tall. Since 1856, the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., has featured some of the most prominent art in the United States, including works by Constantino Brumidi, [1] [2] Vinnie Ream and Allyn Cox.
On February 27, 2013, Parks became the first African-American woman to have her likeness in the Hall. [2] Though located in Statuary Hall, Parks' statue is not part of the Collection; neither Alabama (her birth state) nor Michigan (where she lived most of her later years) commissioned it, and both states are represented in the Collection by ...
Joanne Cash, sister of Johnny Cash, touching the newly unveiled statue of Johnny Cash at the U.S. Capitol’s Emancipation Hall. Josh Morgan / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
The National Statuary Hall in 2011. The National Statuary Hall is a chamber in the United States Capitol devoted to sculptures of prominent Americans. The hall, also known as the Old Hall of the House, is a large, two-story, semicircular room with a second story gallery along the curved perimeter.
Joanne Cash, sister of Johnny Cash, wipes tears during the unveiling ceremony of a statue of Johnny Cash in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 24, 2024.
Frederick Douglass is a 2013 bronze sculpture depicting the American abolitionist and politician of the same name by Steven Weitzman, installed in the United States Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall, in Washington, D.C. [1]