RiverSculpture!

RiverSculpture!

RiverSculpture! are public art displays found along the Milwaukee Riverwalk in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Information kiosks stationed near each presentation offer self-guided walking tours of this annual outdoor exhibition.

Description

Each year new sculpture pieces are unveiled at the open of RiverSplash!, a three day summer festival held annually along the Milwaukee River. The 2008 exhibition featured 15 unique contemporary sculptures from various artists, which are positioned at locations between Wisconsin Avenue and Juneau Avenue.

# "Limitation Series: Bowls" by Paul Sebben, 1993
# "Epiphanic Recurve Redux" by Bilhenry Walker, 1995
# "Laureate" by Seymour Lipton, 1969
# "Acqua Grylli" by Beth Sahagian, 2001 (permanent display)
# "Pere Jacques Marquette" restored by Tom Queoff, 1987 (permanent display)
# "Ribbon Song" by Stephen Fischer, 2006
# "Trigon" by Allen Ditson, 1970
# "Victoria" by Jim Agard, 2001
# "Inuit's Bone Sequi III" by Bilhenry Walker, 1995
# "Dream with the Fishes for Aurora" by Cork Marcheschi, 1998
# "Gertie the Duck" by Gwendolyn Gillen, 1997 (permanent display)
# "Palm Tree Serenade" by John Mishler, 2007
# "Immigrant" by Mike Baur, 1996
# "Cow and Ballerina" by Schomer Lichtner, 2003
# "Gertie Gets Her Ducks in a Row" by Benjamin Rothschild, 2007

External links

* [http://www.onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/riversculpture.html RiverSculpture! 2000]
* [http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/aug01/auercol22082101a.asp Beth Sahagian's "Acqua Grylli"]
* [http://www.youth.net/memories/1999/0120.html Story of Gertie the Duck]


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