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bronze sculpture
Bronze is the most popular metal for Casting (metalworking), cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as w ...
of
Martha Hughes Cannon
Martha Maria "Mattie" Hughes Cannon (July 1, 1857 – July 10, 1932) was a Welsh-American politician, physician, Utah women's rights advocate, suffragist, and a polygamous wife. Her family immigrated to the United States as converts to the Chur ...
by American sculptor Ben Hammond is installed in the
United States Capitol Visitor Center
The United States Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) is a large underground addition to the United States Capitol complex which serves as a gathering point for up to 4,000 tourists and an expansion space for the United States Congress, U.S. Congress. ...
, in
Washington, D.C
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...
., United States. It was gifted by the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
in 2024, replacing the
statue
A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or Casting (metalworking), cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to ...
of
Philo T. Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971), "The father of television", was the American inventor and pioneer who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States Government.
Burns, R. W. (1998), ''Televisi ...
, which the state had gifted in 1990.
See also
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Statues of the National Statuary Hall Collection
The National Statuary Hall Collection holds statues donated by each of the United States, portraying notable persons in the histories of the respective List of states and territories of the United States, states. Displayed in the National Statuar ...
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2024 in art
The year 2024 in art involved various significant events.
Events
*January 23 – An illegally smuggled Hellenistic Terpsichore statuette from Dodona, statuette of a Greek goddess is repatriated to Greece from the United States after sixteen yea ...
References
{{National Statuary Hall Collection
National Statuary Hall Collection
Sculptures of women in Washington, D.C.