Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Art Our Great Nation, in Bad Statues
Posted by Whitney Kimball on Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:41 PM
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2. George Washington as Zeus. The National Museum of American History, Washington, DC
Try wiping this topless George Washington image from your brain. Sculptor Horatio Greenough’s statue of Washington-as-Zeus once sat in the Capitol Rotunda, but was soon consigned to the Capitol lawn, then buried in the Smithsonian, and finally washed up in the National Museum of American History. Maybe it's finally time for a comeback; Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, anybody?
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