The Hiker (Newman)
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The Hiker is a statue made by Allen George Newman. Like Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson's statue of the same name it was created to honor the American soldiers who took "long hikes in steaming jungles" [1] during the Boxer Rebellion, the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War.
The statue, quoted as ”The best bronze soldier in America” [2] by sculptor and critic Lorado Taft, proved to be very popular, copies of it being located in numerous cities.
Locations
The statue has been installed in more than 20 locations.[3]
- New-York Historical Society, New York City 1904
- Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, 1904
- Washington Park, Staten Island, New York, 1912
- Bayonne Park, Bayonne, New Jersey, 1912
- Utica, New York park, 1915
- Monongahela, Pennsylvania, 1915
- Tompkinsville Park, Staten Island, New York, 1916, relocated 1925
- Theodore Roosevelt Park, Buffalo, New York, 1920
- Grove Street Park, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1922
- Greenridge Cemetery, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1923
- Wilcox Park, Westerly, Rhode Island, 1924
- Pittsburgh, 1925 [4]
- Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1925
- Riverside Park, Wichita, Kansas, 1926
- Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, 1926
- Niagara Falls, New York, 1928
- Buchanan Park, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 1931
- Belle Isle, Detroit, 1932
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1939 [5]
- Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1940 [6]
Image gallery
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The Hiker monument in the North Burial Grounds in Providence Rhode Island
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The Hiker monument in Southbridge, Massachusetts
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The Hiker monument in Woonsocket, Rhode Island
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The Hiker monument in Utica, New York
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The Hiker monument in Greenridge Cemetery in Saratoga Springs, New York
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The Hiker monument in Grove St. Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
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The Hiker monument in Wilcox Park in Westerly, Rhode Island
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- ↑ Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions, G. K. Hall and Co. Boston, 1990 p. 104
- ↑ Taft, Lorado, The History of American Sculpture, Macmillan, New York, 1925 p. 570
- ↑ Tucker, Spencer (2009), "Theodora Alice Ruggles Kitson, "The Hiker" war memorial, 1906", The encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars: a political, social, and military history (ABC-CLIO) 1: 988, ISBN 1-85109-951-4, retrieved 2012-01-31
- ↑ Evert, Marlyn and Vernon Gay, photographs, Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1983
- ↑ Beajer and Style, Public Sculpture in Wisconsin: An Atlas of Outdoor Monuments, Memorials and Masterpieces in the Badger State, SOS! Wisconsin, Save Outdoor Sculpture and Fine Arts Conservation Services, Madison Wisconsin, 1999 p, 18
- ↑ Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, An Annotated Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture in Washtenaw County, Independent Study, Eastern Michigan University, 1989