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Felix de Weldon. (American, 1907-2003)
The original plaster maquette bas-relief for a monumental memorial
[Washington D.C.]; circa 1945-1950
The original plaster maquette bas-relief for a monumental memorial
[Washington D.C.]; circa 1945-1950
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Felix de Weldon. (American, 1907-2003)
The original plaster maquette bas-relief for a monumental memorial
[Washington D.C.]; circa 1945-1950
The original plaster maquette bas-relief for a monumental memorial
[Washington D.C.]; circa 1945-1950
11in. x 9.25in.
Footnotes
Exhibited:
The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, New York, 1995-2007
Provenance:
The War Museum
The plaster maquette was intended to be a large memorial, annotated on the back by de Weldon 'enlarge 20 times', but in the end was used at this same size, cast in bronze and incorporated into the Marine monument erected on Mount Suribachi. Iwo Jima, a sovereign Japanese territory was occupied by the Americans 1945-1968. De Weldon eventually got his dream of making the bas-relief a memorial when he was approached in 1984 by an ex-naval man, Mr Pipping of Lakeland Florida, and was commissioned to do a large size version of this bas relief. It was cast in bronze and first displayed in 1988 by the roadside of interstate 4 between Tampa and Orlando, standing 11 x 9 feet (hence the note on the back enlarge 20 times!).

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