The Bowman and the Spearman
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The Bowman and the Spearman are two bronze equestrian sculptures standing as gatekeepers at the intersection of Congress Parkway and Michigan Avenue in Grant Park, Chicago, USA. The sculptures were made in Zagreb by Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović and installed at the entrance of the parkway in 1928.
An easily-overlooked aspect of the sculptures is that the figures in both sculptures are missing their weapons, the bow and arrow and the spear.
Recent research (2006) strongly suggest that the lettering on the pedestals designed by architects Holabird & Roche was executed by sculptor Rene Paul Chambellan.
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Keckemet, Dusko, Ivan Mestrovic, Publishing House, Beograd, Jugoslavija 1964
Keckemet, Dusko, Ivan Mestrovic – Split, Mestrovic Gallery Split and Spektar Zagreb, Yugoslavia 1969
Keckemet, Dusko, Ivan Mestrovic, McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, NY 1970
Kvaran, , Einar Einarsson Architectural Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript
Schmeckebier, Laurence, Ivan Mestrovic – Sculptor and Patriot, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 1959
