Chicago : " un Indien dans la ville "

Merci D, pour le lien sur les œuvres de Meštrović ;-)

Excellent, thank you.

merci pour ce lien...

Nice photograph that brings strong memories from my youth. When I was a boy in Chicago, this American native statue, obviously missing the bow in his left hand, was unsettling for the absence of the weapon. I assumed it had been vandalized and I could not understand why it was never repaired. Only recently did I discover that this was an intentional omission by the sculptor to focus the viewer on the man and horse, a clever device I think. The sculptor is Ivan Mestrovic, a Croatian artist. This and a companion piece of a native American seeming to hurl a spear (also missing), were installed in 1928.