The city of Independence, Missouri, celebrated President Harry S. Truman's 140th birthday on Saturday with a new statue, free photo exhibit and other events.
94-year-old artist talks about creating Harry Truman statue for Independence Square
The statue will sit right in front of the savings and loan building where Truman once worked Share Updated: 9:42 PM CDT May 24, 2021
The statue will sit right in front of the savings and loan building where Truman once worked Share Updated: 9:42 PM CDT May 24, 2021
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Show Transcript FORMER PRESIDENT? SUCH A DYNAMIC PHOTOGRAPH INDEPENDENCE ARTISTS BYRON CONSTANCE WAS MORE THAN FIVE DECADES INTO LIFE BEFORE HE DISCOVERED. HE HAD ARTISTIC TALENTSUR TNED OUT TO BE A GOOD HOBBY. NO DOUBT AND THAT PHOTOGRAPH HAS WAAL BYSEEN BYRON’S FAVORITE PICTURE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OCCURRED TO ME THAT IT MIGHT BE FUN TO DO A LIFE-SIZE SCULPTURE IN BRONZE THE INDEPENDENCE SCORE ASSOCIATION COMMISSIONING THE STATUE TO PUT ON THE CORNER OF MAPLE AND LIBERTY BYRON SAYS, NO ON E HAS EVER MADE A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ART PIECE OF THAT PICTURE, SO HE WAS ON BOARD. TIHOUGH
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Local artist planning Truman statue for Square
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
The Examiner
Byron Constance, the longtime Independence attorney and developer who took up artistry later in life as a hobby, says he’d long been interested in sculpting a unique Harry Truman statue.
The Independence Square Association had long hoped to depict Truman’s life with works of art around the Square.
The two paths connected this year, and by the end of the year a second Truman statue should be in place on the Square.
Constance, 94, is putting the finishing touches on his clay statue depicting Truman from World War I, in which the future 33rd president served as an artillery captain. He’ll then ship it to a foundry in Colorado, to be cast in bronze, and ideally the statue will be in place this fall on the northeast corner of Liberty Street and Maple Avenue.