Frederick Hart’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Statue was one of the first statues on the National Mall to include a figure modeled on an African American. It is also the first and only statue on the National Mall to include a figure modeled on an immigrant from Mexico.
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The creator of hundreds of public monuments, private commissions, portraits, and other works of art, Frederick E. Hart (Frederick Elliott Hart) was one of the most accomplished sculptors of the latter half of the 20th century. #FrederickHart
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The creator of hundreds of public monuments, private commissions, portraits, and other works of art, Frederick E. Hart (Frederick Elliott Hart) was one of the most accomplished sculptors of the latter half of the 20th century. #FrederickHart
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A statue of Yasuke, a slave from Africa who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first black samurai. Yasuke was a man of African descent who served as Kashin under the Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga.
@Forgotten
James Earl Carter Presidential Statue in Atlanta. By Frederick Hart.
In honor of the work Jimmy Carter undertook “on behalf of human and environmental needs,” the sculpture represents “the generosity of Carter’s nature, his eagerness to share a vision of justice.” #JimmyCarter
#DavidNolanGallery and #JackShear exhibition of tremendous collection of “A 20 Year Adventure with Drawings”. Shear’s collection consists in 700 drawings dating from the 16th cent to the present.
Part of @MasterDrawingNY
Hausa architecture from Northern Nigeria, is perhaps one of the least known but most beautiful aspects of Hausa culture. It has been in existence for thousands of years & is characterised by bright, colourful, intricately engraved buildings
A thread on Hausa architecture…