The Bowman and The Spearman, also known as Indians,[1] are two bronze equestrian sculptures standing as gatekeepers in Congress Plaza, at the intersection of Congress Drive and Michigan Avenue in Grant Park, Chicago, United States. The sculptures were made in Zagreb by Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović and installed at the entrance of the parkway in 1928. The pair of sculptures was funded by the Benjamin Ferguson Fund.[2]
An unusual 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. [3]
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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- Kvaran, , Einar Einarsson Architectural Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript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
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Alexander Hamilton Statue, 1918 ( Pratt/ Coolidge) • The Bowman and The Spearman, 1928 ( Meštrović) • Defense and Regeneration, 1928 ( Hering) • Ferguson Building • Fountain of the Great Lakes, 1913 ( Taft) • Fountain of the Tritons, 1931 ( Milles) • Fountain of Time, 1922 ( Taft/ Van Doren Shaw) • Helping Hands, 1996 ( Bourgeois) • I have a Dream, 1978 ( Pattison) • Illinois Centennial Monument, 1918 ( Bacon/ Longman) • Jacques Marquette Memorial, 1926 ( MacNeil) • Man Enters the Cosmos, 1980 ( Moore) • Man on A Bench, 1980 ( Segal) • Nuclear Energy, 1967 ( Moore) • Slabs of the Sunburnt West, 1975 ( Hunt) • The Spirit of Music, 1923 ( Polasek) • Statue of the Republic, 1918 ( French) • The Waltz of Hands ( Bourgeois) • ??, 1976 ( Noguchi)
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