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This is a list of public art in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Downtown

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Title Artist Year Location/GPS Coordinates Material Dimensions Owner Image
Soldier's Monument Leon Coquard 1885 Monument Park, Division and Fulton painted bronze Need dimensions Need owner
Thomas D. Gilbert Lorado Taft 1895 Memorial Park bronze Need dimensions Need owner
La Grande Vitesse Alexander Calder 1969 Calder Plaza painted steel 42 ft City of Grand Rapids and Kent County
American Eagle Marshall Fredericks 1972 Gerald R. Ford Museum Plaza bronze Need dimensions Need owner
Motu Viget Mark di Suvero 1977 Calder Plaza, Ottawa near Michigan steel and rubber tire Need dimensions Need owner
Flying Geese Marshall Fredericks 1981 Van Andel Museum Center bronze Need dimensions Need owner
River's Edge Environmental Sculpture Michael Singer and Sasaki Associates 1995 Grand River east bank, near Fulton Street Bridge granite and stone Need dimensions Need owner
Ecliptic Maya Lin 2001 Rosa Parks Circle mixed media Need dimensions Need owner

Miscellaneous, to be Added to Milwaukee List

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  • Red Arrow
  • Al McGuire
  • Henry Aaron
  • Robin Yount
  • The Workers' Monument at Miller Park
  • Ione, Centennial Hall
  • Our Lady of Guadalupe, Walker Square
  • Calipers (Myers)
  • Monumental Holistic III
  • Mahatma Gandhi (Pal)
  • The Family (Puccetti)
  • History of Malting and Brewing (Wiken)
  • Sower and Reaper (Bohland)
  • Man Helping Man
  • The Last Alarm (Davis)
  • Mary Miss/Riverwalk
  • Richard Taylor at Central Library
  • Noguchi proposal for MAM sculpture garden
  • Scottish Rite Cathedral carvings
  • Tulip Fountain (Yank)
  • Elmer Winter stuff at Manpower
  • Victoria (Agard)
  • Snail Crossing
  • You Rise Above the World (Taylor)
  • Locust St. Signs (Mohr)
  • Squid at Kilbourn Park (Lee)
  • Atwater Park Fountain (Yank)
  • Riverside Park Stones (Flanary)
  • Cass Street Playground (Lee)
  • Marsupial Bridge--LaDallman, Ray Chi
  • Brady St. Sculpture garden
  • Bill Ried mouse and dragonfly
  • Cudahy Immigrant Family

Bibliography

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  • Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics by Rosalyn Deutsche. MIT Press, 1998.
  • Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities by Erika Doss. Smithsonian Institution, 1995.
  • Dialogues in Public Art edited by Tom Finkelpearl. MIT Press, 2000.
  • Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art edited by Suzanne Lacy. Bay Press, 1995.
  • Monument Wars: Washington, DC, the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape by Kirk Savage. University of California Press, 2009.

References

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