Emmet Sullivan, (May 27, 1887 – November 3, 1970) was an American sculptor. He was born in Powder River, Montana, and claimed to have worked on

Mount Rushmore The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a National Memorial (United States), national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dak ...

. He created the five dinosaurs in

Dinosaur Park Dinosaur Park is a dinosaur park in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Dedicated on May 22, 1936, it contains seven dinosaur sculptures on a hill overlooking the city, created to capitalize on the tourists coming to the Black Hills to see ...

Rapid City, South Dakota Rapid City is the county seat of Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It is located on the eastern slope of the Black Hills in western South Dakota and was named after Rapid Creek (South Dakota), Rapid Creek, where the settlement deve ...

in 1934, his first large-scale project. His other dinosaur creations were the

Apatosaurus ''Apatosaurus'' (; meaning "deceptive lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first-known species, ''A. ajax'', in 1877, a ...

Wall Drug Wall Drug Store, often called simply Wall Drug, is a roadside attraction and tourist attraction, tourist stop located in the town of Wall, South Dakota, adjacent to Badlands National Park. Wall Drug consists of a collection of cowboy-themed store ...

Wall, South Dakota Wall (Lakota language, Lakota: ''Makȟóšiča Aglágla Otȟuŋwahe'', "Town alongside the Badlands National Park, Badlands") is a town in Pennington County, South Dakota, Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 699 at ...

in the late 1960s, and the many dinosaurs of Dinosaur World in

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. In 1966 Sullivan sculpted the 20 meter tall

Christ of the Ozarks ''Christ of the Ozarks'' statue is a monumental sculpture of Jesus located near Eureka Springs, Arkansas, atop Magnetic Mountain. It was erected in 1966 as a "Sacred Project" by populist and white supremacist Gerald L. K. Smith. The statue stan ...

statue in

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. Other projects of his career included a menagerie of prehistoric animals on West Main street in Rapid City, South Dakota in 1967, a giant seal for Marine Life, South of Rapid City, and a large bull at Black Hawk, South Dakota. Sullivan died at 83 in

Rapid City Rapid City is the county seat of Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It is located on the eastern slope of the Black Hills in western South Dakota and was named after Rapid Creek, where the settlement developed. It is the second-mo ...

in 1970. He was buried in the Black Hills National Cemetery.

Gallery of sculptures by Emmet Sullivan

Image:Dinosaur Park.jpg, Tyrannosaurus rex sculpture in

Image:TriceratopsDinosaurPark.jpg, Triceratops sculpture in Dinosaur Park Image:StegosaurusDinosaurPark.jpg, Stegosaurus sculpture in Dinosaur Park Image:09-02-06--ChristofOzarks.jpg,

statue in

Image:Wall Drug Dinosaur.JPG, The

dinosaur statue in

Image:Marine Life Rapid City SD.jpg, Seal sculpture at Marine Life Rapid City SD

External links

DinosaurPark.net: Online biography

References

1887 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists American male sculptors {{US-sculptor-stub