Diana (Wiken)
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''Diana'' is a
public art Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre with its own professional and critical discourse. Public art is visually and physically acce ...
work designed by American artist Dick Wiken and carved by Adoph Roegner, formerly located in downtown
Milwaukee Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee ...
,
Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
. The carved limestone depicts the Roman goddess Diana seated and surrounded by fish, cattails and a unicorn.Buck, Diane M. and Virginia A. Palmer (1995). Outdoor Sculpture in Milwaukee: A Cultural and Historical Guidebook. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison. It was located on the facade of the
Milwaukee Athletic Club The Milwaukee Athletic Club (often referred to as The MAC), is a private, social and full-service athletic club. History Eight young men founded the Milwaukee Athletic Club on September 18, 1882, for the express purpose of "developing of the b ...
but has since been removed and sold to a private collector.


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Outdoor sculptures in Milwaukee 1954 sculptures Limestone sculptures in Wisconsin 1954 establishments in Wisconsin Sculptures of Artemis Sculptures of fish in the United States Animal sculptures in Wisconsin Sculptures of unicorns Sculptures of plants {{Public-art-stub