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Jared Ortega
Imagine walking in the woods and coming across six large men struggling to transport a coffin on their shoulders, heads bowed in concentration, arms taut under their burden. It might take you a moment to realize you’re looking at a sculpture: Six life-sized somber mourners and a casket.
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This is “The Funeral Procession,” or “The Seven Muses,” and sadly, it is not on public property. But don’t worry, the Under Rocks team isn’t shy about asking for permission: We scored a tour from Jan Stilson, a former librarian at Northern Illinois University s Lorado Taft campus and author of the book
My New Orleans
04/12/2021
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – For nearly 70 years, sculptor Enrique Alférez helped shape the visual landscape of New Orleans. His figurative sculptures, monuments, fountains and architectural friezes, bas-reliefs and carvings grace dozens of spaces and structures from City Park to the Central Business District, and from Algiers Point to Lakefront Airport.It’s difficult to drive even a few miles around the Crescent City without encountering Alférez’s striking creations.
For the first time, the life and work of this preeminent artist has been celebrated in book form Katie Bowler Young’s
“Enrique Alférez: Sculptor,”
North Dakota s gift to Norway became an inspiration for citizens during World War II Did You Know That columnist Curt Eriksmoen explains why the state gave a bust of Abraham Lincoln to the country and why it became the site of silent anti-Nazi protests in the 1940s. Written By: Curt Eriksmoen | ×
A delegation from North Dakota poses next to a bust of Abraham Lincoln the state gave to Norway on July 4, 1914, at Frogner Park in Oslo. Special to The Forum
The years between 1940 and 1945 were a very bleak time for the patriotic citizens of Norway. This was because the country was occupied by a large number of German Nazi soldiers who took away many of the people’s freedoms.
Jeff Rankin: Renowned ‘Farmer Sculptor’ hailed from Berwick
By Jeff Rankin
The Rankin File
Just as the works of Ernest Hemingway and Jack London achieved their power from the writers’ personal experiences, the works of Ben D. Cable earned him the title “the Farmer Sculptor.”
Born on a farm just north of Berwick in 1865, Benjamin Davis Cable showed an aptitude for drawing and painting from an early age, while attending the district school in Floyd Township. A voracious reader, he schooled himself on all aspects of the arts, and in his spare time on the farm took up sketching farm animals and wildlife.