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

Downtown

TitleArtistYearLocation/GPS CoordinatesMaterialDimensionsOwnerImage
Soldier's MonumentLeon Coquard1885Monument Park, Division and Fultonpainted bronzeNeed dimensionsNeed owner
Thomas D. GilbertLorado Taft1895Memorial ParkbronzeNeed dimensionsNeed owner
La Grande VitesseAlexander Calder1969Calder Plazapainted steel42 ftCity of Grand Rapids and Kent County
American EagleMarshall Fredericks1972Gerald R. Ford Museum PlazabronzeNeed dimensionsNeed owner
Motu VigetMark di Suvero1977Calder Plaza, Ottawa near Michigansteel and rubber tireNeed dimensionsNeed owner
Flying GeeseMarshall Fredericks1981Van Andel Museum CenterbronzeNeed dimensionsNeed owner
River's Edge Environmental SculptureMichael Singer and Sasaki Associates1995Grand River east bank, near Fulton Street Bridgegranite and stoneNeed dimensionsNeed owner
EclipticMaya Lin2001Rosa Parks Circlemixed mediaNeed dimensionsNeed owner

Miscellaneous, to be Added to Milwaukee List

  • 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

  • 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