Most attractive statue?

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What is the most attractive statue of a civil War General? It does not have to be your favorite generals but just the best looking one. To me the Sherman statue in new York has to be high on the list. Sherman being lead to victory by the winged Angel of Victory. One of the reasons I like it is the monument's bass is left fairly plain while the monument concentrates on Sherman and the Angel of Victory. This plainness allows Sherman and the Angel to carry the message without any distractions. One does not have to love Sherman to see the strength and beauty of this monument.


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What is the most attractive statue of a civil War General? It does not have to be your favorite generals but just the best looking one. To me the Sherman statue in new York has to be high on the list. Sherman being lead to victory by the winged Angel of Victory. One of the reasons I like it is the monument's bass is left fairly plain while the monument concentrates on Sherman and the Angel of Victory. This plainness allows Sherman and the Angel to carry the message without any distractions. One does not have to love Sherman to see the strength and beauty of this monument.

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That is a beautiful monument; it was designed by Saint-Gaudens, same guy who designed the double eagle coin.

I love this bronze statue of Lee and his young aide in Lee Park in my home town of Dallas. The Park is beautiful and is the site of many weddings at the 2/3's replica of Arlington Hall close by. The work was dedicated by none other than FDR in 1936.

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I think the equestrian statue of Forrest in Memphis is very nice.

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Charles Henry Niehaus was a German-American born in Ohio who did a large number of these kinds of statue. He was noted for accuracy - Forrest's face looks like Forrest and Niehaus was particularly good with horses - King Philip looks like he did in life.
 
I'm partial to the Memphis Forrest statue, which I used to climb all over as a child.

Incidentally, the horse is anatomically correct, which is very obvious when you stand at the base of the statue - basically it's all you can see from the position where a typical visitor would stand. This used to tickle me as a child.
 
I'm partial to the Memphis Forrest statue, which I used to climb all over as a child.

Incidentally, the horse is anatomically correct, which is very obvious when you stand at the base of the statue - basically it's all you can see from the position where a typical visitor would stand. This used to tickle me as a child.

:laugh: That's hilarious but not as hilarious as Black Bess! They added some parts she didn't come with because somehow it wasn't dignified for Gen Morgan to be sitting on a mare...:x3:
 
What is the most attractive statue of a civil War General? It does not have to be your favorite generals but just the best looking one. To me the Sherman statue in new York has to be high on the list. Sherman being lead to victory by the winged Angel of Victory. One of the reasons I like it is the monument's bass is left fairly plain while the monument concentrates on Sherman and the Angel of Victory. This plainness allows Sherman and the Angel to carry the message without any distractions. One does not have to love Sherman to see the strength and beauty of this monument.

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This is one of my least favorites. I hate the gold. Just looks gaudy.
 
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The Grant statue along Kelly Drive in Philadelphia.

Just four days after the death of General Grant in 1885, the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) formed a committee to create a fund for erecting an appropriate memorial. By January of the following year, almost $13,000 had been collected for the Grant Memorial Fund.

Daniel Chester French was awarded the commission for the monument and requested that a former student, Edward C. Potter, work with him. Potter had previously collaborated with French and was particularly interested in the modeling of horses. French depicted Grant “surveying a battlefield from an eminence and . . . intent upon the observation of the forces before him.

The horse is obedient . . . to the will of his rider. We endeavored in the figure of Grant to give something of the latent force of the man, manifesting itself through perfect passivity.” The model was completed in 1893 and then enlarged to one and a half times life size in Potter’s studio in Enfield, Massachusetts.

Casting at the Bureau Brothers Foundry began in 1896. The sculpture was dedicated on April 27, 1899, a date selected to coincide with the 77th anniversary of Grant’s birth.

http://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/general-ulysses-s-grant/
 
A lot of action in this statue.

Yes, and the soldier whose horse had toppled over and who is now under the hooves of the front horse has a strange, calm look in all that tumoil and looks like Lincoln! As if someone had put a wrong head into the statue.
Otherwise it a terrific work, although not my favorite.
Seems equestrian statues in general are the most beloved.
Interesting thread, something new to think about. Thank you all!
 
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