Brazos Valley, Texas has gained two new veterans memorial statues in commemoration of the American Civil War. They depict soldiers on opposing sides, and were unveiled in a ceremony on Thursday attended by about 200 people. Most importantly of all, rather than reminding onlookers of...
Here at Big Statues, whenever we hear news of the unveiling of a new military statue on these shores, we cannot help but be full of admiration for the honored, such is our respect for their service to our country. The situation is no different...
The surfers who routinely flock to Newport Beach in California may soon be greeted by a life size statue commemoration of one of the beach's true heroes in recent times, the late lifeguard Ben Carlson, who died while rescuing a stricken swimmer last July. News of...
National Statutory Hall in Washington, D.C. may currently be home to two historic statues representing Oregon, but a state committee has recommended that both be brought "home" and replaced in the U.S. Capitol by two new sculptures. In news that will interest many of those considering...
The latest news related to custom bronze statues across the Atlantic will always interest us here at Big Statues, and our eye was certainly caught by the news of a campaign for a statue of the late, great former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,...
The Statue of Liberty may be one of the most instantly recognizable custom sculptures on the planet, but it's certainly not become over-familiar to the millions of people who pay it a visit every year. That was certainly well evidenced in 2014, which saw 4.2...
We're much like you here at Big Statues, in that we love to read stories of festive cheer as Christmas Day looms. One story that particularly attracted our attention in recent days concerned a Rochester man who returned a small marble sculpture of an owl...
Few life size bronze statues will be more popular among the residents of Rio de Janeiro than the one that has just been erected to honor the singer-composer who helped to immortalize the Brazilian city's Arpoador Beach. That person is, of course, Rio native and...
Over 50 years ago, an eleven-year-old American Girl Scout named Libby Watson and a seventeen-year-old Japanese Girl Scout named Hiroko Tanaka gave the customary Scouting salute and shook hands. The moment was captured forever in The United States-Japan Girl Scout Friendship Statue, which was dedicated...