This is the Dullest mausoleum I’ve ever seen.
Category Archives: public art
Edwin Zenas Gerould
A new appendix to this post explains how and, I think, why the Gerould figure is odd.
Olde School Antifascism
A Woodlawn monument to Antonio Fierro offers an opportunity to dig into fascist-communist fighting among Italian Americans in the early 1930s.
A powerful artistic partnership
A lesser-known but still splendid collaboration by French and Bacon. Sounds like a delicious sandwich!
St. Lucy’s Church
Bombings, antifascists, coal-mine collapses, and THE SCRANTONIAN SCULPTOR. Need ye more?
Self-made Man
A fascinating knockoff of Bobbie Carlyle’s Self-made Man sculpture with a portrait head of the deceased! *Chef’s kiss*
The Ithacan
Come for the attractive memorial but stay to find a seemingly lost work by a little-known New York artist, Charles Michael Angelo Lang.
Colbert monument
An Olde Schoole female figure illustrates 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 in Rock Creek Cemetery.
McCormick monument
An eternal guard watches over James McCormick’s grave.
Hell House of Berwick, Pennsylvania
What was once a chapel-undertaker’s-sexton’s house in Berwick, PA is now HELL HOUSE.
