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Iconic Statue Makes a Business Stand Out

Adding a Statue can make Your Business Stand Out

If you're looking to add signage to the front of your business, a large bronze statue, sculpture, or fountain could be the way to go. In today's world of constant visual stimulus our attention spans are shorter than ever. We've become blind to standard billboards and other signage. Imagine a horse with blinders on, this has become the way we see the world. With so much visual stimulation, our brain has begun to tune these things out. What does this mean for a business? It means you have an even smaller chance of getting someones attention with a standard flat, lettered sign. Being creative in your approach at getting the attention you want and need for your business is more crucial than ever.

Placing a large, 3 dimensional bronze statue, sculpture, or fountain in front of your business is a great way to get people to stop and look rather than just move past without a second thought. You've now positioned yourself as a landmark rather than just another store or business craving attention. People love statues, they take pictures with them, connect with them, REMEMBER them. By adding a unique work of bronze art to your landscape they're likely to remember your business as well.

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Georgia Gerber Sculpture to memorialize Terry Reim

Georgia Gerber Sculpture
The News Tribune
by CHRISTIAN HILL

University Place leader's spirit lives on in sculpture

The spirit that led Terry Reim to become one of University Place's biggest supporters is imbued in a bronze duck sculpture that will soon be dedicated in his honor at a place that was still a civic dream when he died.

Reim and his friend Dixie Harris founded the Duck Parade about a decade ago to generate foot traffic for a farmers market, another of their initiatives from the same period. While the farmers market is gone for now, the Duck Daze event continues each June, with participants dressing up like ducks to celebrate the end of the rainy season.

The affinity between Reim and the waterfowl doesn't end there. Like a duck paddling in water, those who knew him say he worked tirelessly while yielding results that looked effortless.

Reim's widow, Ruthann Reim McCaffree, said his mantra was to "move ahead and get things done."

"He was intense and complicated," she said. "He loved this community."

Reim was a strong proponent of University Place's incorporation and wanted to grow the tax base of the fledgling city - a goal officials aim to realize when their Town Center project finally opens on Bridgeport Way.

Plans for Town Center were just starting to take shape when Reim died at age 61 in April 2003. He fell off a ladder while remodeling his home.

Reim couldn't have anticipated that a sculpture built in his honor would be one of the first completed pieces of the development.

The first major tenant arrives in February, when The Pierce County Library System plans to open its new 15,000-square-foot library inside a civic building.

Meanwhile, construction continues on that building, which also will feature the future City Hall, ground-floor retail space and underground parking. The city also plans to sell about a dozen lots slated for mixed-use development around the building.

Drawing on his background as a developer and home builder, Reim led the city's economic development task force and its local chamber of commerce.

Councilman Ken Grassi recalled that Reim once promised cherries at the farmers market. When the vendor couldn't make it, Reim drove to Eastern Washington to pick up the cherries, drove back and ran the booth himself.

"He was a man of his word," Grassi said. "If he said it, he would do it, no matter what it took."

The sculpture captures Reim's deliberative manner, featuring a 41/2-foot-high male duck marching forward with a young duck on his back, its wings held out to keep balance. Walking beside the male duck is another duckling.

The nonprofit group UP for Art, working with Reim's widow and the city, commissioned sculptor Georgia Gerber to create the piece after an open competition.

The sculpture's cost is $30,000. UP for Art and the Terry Reim Memorial Fund donated $15,000. The city is contributing the remaining half from a state grant dedicated for the market square development.

Gerber, a sculptor from Whidbey Island, said the statue symbolizes Reim's drive and the whimsy of the events he helped create. She said her work also touches on themes of family and is "for the public to enjoy forever and embrace as a part of their community."

Reim McCaffree is pleased with Gerber's work. "I can't say enough about her. She took it to the whole next level."

The Reims were fixtures in University Place for the better part of their 40-year marriage, well before UP became a city in 1995.

The couple rented a home there in 1965, after Terry was drafted and ordered to report to Fort Lewis. After he completed his military service, the couple returned in 1968 to raise their family.

Reim McCaffree said the sculpture can be a metaphor for the city of nearly 31,000 residents.

"We're scrambling ... We're working hard to become a top-notch city for the people who live here and come here," she said. "I think the duck symbolizes that spirit, as well."




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Copper Pricing Continues to Rise Bronze Prices Affected

COPPER PRICES CONTINUE TO TREND UPWARD

Over the last 2 months the price of copper has steadily climbed back above $3/lb. That price is reflective of the raw price, with the price of refined, workable copper being close to, if not more than, triple that $3 mark. As the main componenent of bronze, this greatly affects the pricing of statuary created in bronze. Taking advantage of prices based on the old market value of copper would be wise as once the current crop of merchandise is sold the new pieces are likely to increase greatly in cost.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art gets a giant plug

Claes Oldenburg Sculpture
philly.com
By Stephan Salisbury

Philadelphia Museum of Art gets a giant plug

It dangled high in the air, a connector seeking a connection, before slowly being lowered into the waiting earth.

At 11:45 this morning, the Philadelphia Museum of Art was at last plugged in.

After hours of maneuvering and digging and pondering, the museum installed the latest addition to its outdoor sculpture garden, a gift from collector and philanthropist David Pincus - Claes Oldenburg's Giant Three-Way Plug, Scale A, a nearly 10-foot long electric plug, a cube tap grown to monstrous proportions, now protruding from a grassy knob outside the museum's west entrance.

Dating from 1970, the plug is the second colossal outdoor sculpture fashioned by Oldenburg using everyday objects as inspiration. (The first was his Lipstick, installed at Yale University in 1969.)

Pincus, 83, who watched Wednesday's installation for hours, acquired one of three big plugs (the other two are at the St. Louis Art Museum and the Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College), early in the 1970s and, with the artist's assistance, installed it in his Wynnewood backyard.

He remembers Oldenburg coming down from New York to help install the piece so many years ago.

"We had a wonderful time," Pincus said. "We were digging in the backyard. Even Oldenburg. He loved fresh fruit and my wife went out to get him some. He did some drawings in a little book."

Now Pincus has given the piece to the art museum in honor of Anne d'Harnoncourt, the museum's late director. The sculpture garden, which began with a sheaf of works by Isamu Noguchi, will be named in d'Harnoncourt's honor at a Sept. 7 ceremony.

"I'm sure Anne would be delighted with what they've done with the garden," said Pincus, now 83. "She was something special."

Will he miss seeing the plug as he strolls behind his home?

"My kids will," Pincus said, as he watched the crew of workers from Atelier Art Services, the Philadelphia firm that stored and moved the piece prior to its installation.

"'Dad, don't do that!'" Pincus said his grown children urged. "But art is for enjoyment. You have it in a lifetime. It doesn't belong to you."

Oldenburg, who couldn't make it down from New York for the Wednesday dig and drop, said the concept for the plug, made of Cor-Ten steel and bronze, was actually architectural.

"The plug looks very much like a building," he said, describing the form. It is actually set into the earth, like a building rising from a subterranean foundation.

"There was also the idea that this might have fallen from outer space," said Oldenburg. "It has no base, no platform." In fact, he said, it appears to have "fallen and created its own hole in the ground."

With the addition of the plug to the art museum's sculpture garden, there will be three high-visibility outdoor Oldenburgs in Philadelphia. A fourth is coming next year, a 50-plus foot paint brush rising from a plaza - yet to be constructed - next to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, across North Broad Street from the new convention center extension.

There is no question that Philadelphia is now the center of public work by Oldenburg, who is known for creating mammoth renderings of everyday objects. The first two works installed in the city were Clothespin, erected at the Centre Square office development, 15th and Market Streets, in 1976; it was followed in 1981 by the University of Pennsylvania's Split Button.



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SAVE BIG for AUGUST Bronze Sculpture & Fountain Sale

Save even more! For the final 2 weeks of August we're offering an extra 10% off our already low low prices! Just mention you saw our blog and you'll save hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars on your purchase! We have the largest in-stock selection of bronze sculpture, statues and fountains on the east coast. We can also order any piece we may not have in-stock or do a custom piece that fits your exact need. Call us weekdays 9-4p EST at 302.738.2190. Add the perfect piece to your landscape, entrance, park, pool, or garden. You won't believe our selection! Children, animals, nautical, equestrian, classical and western are just some of the styles we have in-stock. Our prices can't be beat. Go to our site to see all our pieces!

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GIANT 30Ft Bronze Horse Head Sculpture featured at Goodwood

Nic Fiddian-Green grooms his giant horse sculpture for Goodwood
guardian.co.uk

29 June 2010: Nic Fiddian-Green's latest creation, Greekhead-Artemis, is a 30ft bronze sculpture of a horse's head, which is destined to be the star attraction at next month's Glorious Goodwood horse-racing festival in Chichester. We go behind the scenes at the Liverpool foundry, where the sculptor is adding the finishing touches ...



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Back to School Mascot Statues and Sculptures!

BACK TO SCHOOL SAVINGS!!

The back to school season is upon us. Time to start thinking of fall days, seeing friends, and classes. If you're like us you love walking onto campus and seeing the mascot for the first time, it officially means your back for another great year! If you can't see that because you don't have a statue of your school's mascot, we're here to help. We have a large selection of life size and larger than life bronze sculptures that are perfect as the centerpiece for a University, College, or High School stadium or entrance. If you have a mascot that we don't have in-stock we can create a custom piece to suit your needs! Check out bigbronze.com for all your bronze statue or fountain needs. Our wholesale prices can't be beat!

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Winnipeg Millennium Library Park set for new Sculpture

$575,000 Sculpture set for Library Park
Winnipeg Fee Press

The refurbished Millennium Library Park will be the site of the city's most expensive public art project to date.

A $575,000 sculpture will be commissioned with money from the Winnipeg public art program and the 2010 Cultural Capital of Canada fund, officials announced Friday.

The actual piece and the artist making it have yet to be chosen.

A call to artists will be sent out nationally and internationally, and the winner will be chosen by a five-person selection committee, Winnipeg Arts Council officials said in a news release.

"The piece will be a permanent, contemporary artwork using elements of water and light," the statement said. "Whichever artist or artists are chosen will have to take the unique climate of Winnipeg into account, and ensure the artwork will also have a winter presence."

The sculpture is one of several arts projects being funded by the $2-million federal grant for the 2010 cultural capital program.

The arts council's public art program has $500,000 a year in its kitty.

The city's most expensive public art project to date is Montrealer Catherine Widgery's $250,000 River Arch sculpture, installed on the new Norwood Bridge in 1998.

Recent commissions include David Perrett's $150,000 bus shelter at the Ellice Avenue entrance to the University of Winnipeg and Gordon Reeve's $75,000 stainless-steel glacier at the Portage Avenue entrance to Assiniboine Park.



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GRANITE LIQUIDATION Japanese lanterns Table Benches Landscape Art

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WE'RE LIQUIDATING OUR GRANITE INVENTORY! We have several hand carved granite japanese garden lanterns, fountains, and temples as well as an aray of other fountains, benches, table, etc. that are perfect for a garden, landscape, or pond decor. These are hand craved granite pieces. We're selling at BLOWOUT pricing. These pieces usually go for $300 to $1200 and more!!! See the photos below (just a sample)! THESE ARE CLEARANCE PRICES!! DON'T MISS OUT! See our website at bigbronze.com for all our granite and our wholesale bronze statues, sculptures, and fountains in all styles and sizes.

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Roman Sculpture Acquired by MOMA

Metropolitan Museum Of Art Roman Sculpture
Antiques and The Arts Online

New York, NY -- An ancient Roman group statue of great importance and beauty - a depiction of the Three Graces of Greek mythology - has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The marble sculpture is a Second Century AD Roman copy of a Greek work from the Second Century BC. Discovered in Rome in 1892, the statue has been on loan to the museum from a private collector since 1992, and has been on view in the center of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Sculpture Court since it opened in 2007.

In making the announcement, Thomas P. Campbell, the museum's director, commented on the history of the composition: "The charming dancelike pose of the Three Graces - who stand in alternating front and back view, with their hands on each other's shoulders - is one of the most famous and enduring compositions known from antiquity. It was first developed in the Second Century BC, continued in popularity in the Renaissance, and has been influential during every subsequent period of Western European art. Thanks to the generous support of several trustees and other good friends of the institution, we are delighted to announce the addition of this superb, extremely well-preserved and beautifully carved work to the Met's encyclopedic collection, where it will continue to delight and inspire future generations."

The sculpture is on view in the center of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, where it is displayed with other Roman sculptures derived from classical and Hellenistic models.

The Three Graces are Aglaia (Beauty), Euphrosyne (Mirth) and Thalia (Abundance). They bestow what is most pleasurable and beneficent in nature and society. In mythology, they play an attendant role; their closest connection is with Aphrodite, whom they serve as handmaidens. For ancient authors, the triad also served as an allegory for the cycle of giving, accepting and returning favors, which were described by the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca as the "chief bond of human society."

After its discovery in Rome in 1892 near the ancient Forum of Nerva and Vespasian's Temple of Peace, this sculpture entered the collection of Joachim Ferroni and has since attracted much scholarly attention.

The Three Graces traditionally are shown as nudes with water jars covered by drapery at their feet, a representation that ultimately derives from the famous classical statue of Aphrodite by Praxiteles located at Knidos.



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Largest In-stock Bronze Horse Sculpture Selection on the East Coast

If you have a farm, ranch, equestrian center, training facility, equestrian themed restaurant or mascot we have what you need! We easily have the largest in-stock selection on the east coast at by far the best pricing you'll find anywhere. The pictures above are just the tip of the iceberg. We have several styles and sizes of statue, sculpture and fountain to suit your need. Check out our website for our full line. We can also do custom pieces as well!
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Riverbank California installs New Bronze Statues

Here at All Classics Ltd. and bigbronze.com we like to see what becomes of our bronze statues and fountains. So, when a customer sends us some pictures to show off the way they used our bronze, we like to show it off. Not just to toot our horn, but also as a way to show folks the potential for these works of art. Anything we can do to help our clientele be better informed is a high priority.

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THREE DAY SALE! 50% OFF RETAIL PRICING for ENTIRE IN-STOCK SELECTION

For 3 Days Only, you can get a beautiful hand made, museum quality, bronze sculpture, statue, or fountain for an incredible 50% off the retail price! We only offer this a couple times a year so don't miss out. Save on our full in-stock selection of bronze animals, children, and fountains. Now you can add that missing piece to your garden or poolside decor! Check out our website to see all our beautiful sculptures. Hurry though, the sale ends Friday!

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Adding Sculpture Fountains to a Pool creates ambience and fun

The summer season is just around the corner, which means time to uncover the pool and get ready for fun. A great way to add some style to your deck, pool, or the pool landscaping is with a nautical themed bronze fountain. Not only will it make your poolside all the more appealing, it will create a fun element that the kids will love. Many of the fountains available shoot streams of water that act as your very own waterfall. They can be positioned nearly anywhere and be made to shoot water into the pool or as a way to create and extra element to the surrounding landscape. We have several pieces in-stock and ready for immediate shipment. They're easy to install and very durable. And, since they're bronze, they are an investment that will increase in value over time.

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New shipment of bronze Sculptures have arrived!

Some really cool bronze statues and fountains have arrived with our latest shipment. Pieces we don't usually carry but good to add some new variety. Many of the new pieces are our exclusive design as well like the hawk pictured below. Check out all our items at our website!




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National Sculpture Society to hold Annual Celebration Weekend

WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Sculpture Society will hold its annual "Sculpture Celebration Weekend" May 20 through May 23 in Washington, D.C.. The events and festivities will include tours of important national monuments with their creators, including famed sculptors Stanley Bleifeld and Neil Eastern, as well as award presentations to Michael Graves, Bruno Lucchesi and other luminaries of the art world.

The event opens Thursday evening, May 20, with a Welcome Reception at the Arts Club, in the President James Monroe House. Friday will feature private tours with the sculptors of the Franklin D. Roosevelt and U. S. Navy memorials, and a reception in the President's Room, Navy Memorial Theater, with Welcome by Rear Admiral Edward K. Walker, Jr. President and CEO of the U. S. Navy Memorial Foundation.

Saturday starts with an informative presentation with Lauren Lee Cobb of C.A.S.E. Solutions Advertising about the latest interactive tools in marketing. After lunch, attendees will gather at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where they can meet with celebrated figure sculptor Eugene Daub for a special opportunity to examine the Museum's extensive medallion collection or explore the museum on their own.

Sunday provides an opportunity to explore monuments throughout Washington, D. C. by National Sculpture Society members. Several living sculptors of these works will be in attendance, including Neil Estern (US Navy Memorial), Stanley Bleifeld (FDR Memorial) Nina Akamu (Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During WWII), Kristen Kokkin ("Crown Princess of Norway" outside Norwegian Embassy) and Bart Walter ("The Gathering" at the Smithsonian National Zoo).



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Dressing up your town with a bronze sculpture

via sculptsite.com

From Grass Roots Movement to World-Class Exhibit White Plains, NY - Beginning five years ago as a "grass roots" movement to put sculpture in White Plains' public space, the city's Sculpture Committee has come of age. With the 62-piece, 30-year retrospective of American master sculptor David Hayes, art in White Plains has overgrown its sculpture gardens and spread into a veritable city-wide museum, sprouting shape and color in public and private space throughout the city's suburban neighborhoods and downtown residences and businesses.

White Plains Mayor Joseph Delfino has fully embraced the arts throughout his 11-year administration and is one of the Hayes exhibit's most vocal fans. "An important measure of a city's greatness is it's dedication to the arts, which, to me, is our heart and soul," he said. "Outdoor art unifies a city in a way that transcends words. Whether we like a piece or not, we react to it, and, over time, we become accustomed to it. It becomes part of who we are as a community."

One of America's great living contemporary sculptors, Mr. Hayes creates dynamic art from flat sheets of painted steel, welded and bolted into forms inspired by nature. Mr. Hayes himself, his sons David M. and John, and his granddaughter Alexandra, along with crew members of the White Plains Department of Public Works and volunteers from local neighborhoods, houses of worship and schools, have assembled the pieces in puzzle-like fashion one at a time. Eli Schonberger, an ebullient 80-plus-year old who won't let two knee replacements get in the way of his skiing, is as committed to the Sculpture Committee as he is to the slopes. It was he who planted one of the first seeds of the "grass roots" art movement and he who approached David Hayes with an idea that has resulted in the largest outdoor exhibit for both the city and the artist.

Schonberger and Mayor Delfino have reached out to corporate sponsors to support the sculpture installation. The RPW Group, Inc., Heyman Properties and Belway Electric are the exhibit's current major supporters who have gotten the exhibit off the ground. More funding is needed but Schonberger is optimistic about the future. "We're hoping this newest city-wide exhibition will now generate financial support so that we can continue our efforts," he said. Hayes' works are included in the permanent collections of prominent museums around the world including the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The year-long White Plains exhibit is open to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The exhibit has been extended to November of 2010.




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The early bird gets the worm, and the best selection and prices!

We constantly tell people that call in to inquire about one of our pieces that the time to buy is now, generally this goes unheeded because people assume it's just a sales tactic. It's not. We have a lot of sculptures and fountains in-stock, but never more than 1 or 2 of each style. What this means to a consumer is it's better to buy now than wait and hope for a better price. We're already the lowest priced dealer in the country so waiting and hoping to save an extra hundred dollars may actually cost you more in the long run. All our in-stock prices are based on our cost AT THE TIME we purchased it. If you wait, and the piece sells out, you now risk paying significantly more because the next time we order it the price will have gone up on our end which means it's going up on your end as well. Plus, by ordering sooner than later you'll get the best selection as well.

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Loonie climbs past parity for second day, Canadien buying power increases.

Canadien residents can really take advantage of the current economics and the strength of the Loonie by buying US products.

As stated REUTERS:

"The Canadian dollar continued to test parity against its U.S. counterpart on Wednesday, hitting a near 21-month high a day after reaching one-for-one footing.

At 8:03 a.m. (1203 GMT), the Canadian dollar climbed to C$1.0005 to the U.S. dollar, or 99.95 U.S. cents, higher than Tuesday's close at C$1.0012 to the U.S. dollar, or 99.88 U.S. cents."

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