- Carl Romanelli
Carl Romanelli is an American
sculptor noted for his many outdoor sculptures of famous people. Romanelli was born and raised inLos Angeles, California . He is a seventh-generation sculptor, and his family is so well-known inItaly that a museum there is dedicated to his family's sculptural works.Romanelli designed artware in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. For a time, he created artwork for the
Works Project Administration . Lamps, plates and pottery designed by him were issued byMaddux of California ,Incolay Studios andMetrolux . In the 1960s and 1970s, he turned toward life-size statues of people, many of them designed to be displayed outdoors. Among his more notable public works are a statue ofSt. Michael outside St. Michael's Church in Los Angeles; a statue ofSt. Vincent de Paul in Los Angeles; and a modern art piece outside Temple Shaarei Tikvah inArcadia, California . He also designed (but did not execute) the Joseph Scott statue outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse building of the Los Angeles Superior Court.His most famous work is a likeness of
Elvis Presley outside the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. The statue was dedicated onSeptember 8 ,1978 , and stood outside the property in a glass case for 28 years. In 2005, the statue was placed in storage while the facility underwent renovation. It was placed back on public display in 2006 in a courtyard inside the hotel. At one point, the statue was insured for a sizeable $1.5 million.References
* [http://www.lacountyarts.org/civic_bchacepark_romanelli.htm "About the Artist." Burton W. Chase Park. Los Angeles County Arts Commission. No date.] Accessed August 23, 2007.
*Chipman, Jack. "Collector's Encyclopedia of California Pottery." Paducah, Ky.: Collector Books, 1991. ISBN 0891454810
*Gibbs, Carl. "Collector's Encyclopedia of Metlox Potteries: Identification and Values." Paducah, Ky.: Collector Books, 1995. ISBN 0891456430External links
* [http://www.lvhilton.com/info/062106elvis.shtml Statue of Elvis Presley outside the Las Vegas Hilton] Accessed August 23, 2007.
* [http://www.lacountyarts.org/civic_bchacepark_romanelli.htm "The Helmsman," a park sculpture in Los Angeles, California] Accessed August 23, 2007.
* [http://www.publicartinla.com/CivicCenter/scott1.html "Joseph Scott." Statue of Joseph Scott outside the Los Angeles Superior Court] Accessed August 23, 2007.
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