Black Hill Nature Gates - Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota
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steel & brass gates located at the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills (South Dakota) USA
Waymark Code: WMMFG8
Location: South Dakota, United States
Date Posted: 09/13/2014
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These 46 feet long & 8 to 10 high steel gates with 270 brass silhouettes of animals were created by famous Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski. These gates and several other of sculptor's creations are on display at the Crazy Horse Memorial located in the Black Hills (South Dakota) USA.
These gates symbolize the region of the Black Hills that Zilkowski loved and where he spend almost 40 years of his life. Finished in 1982, the gates were his last great creation.
In 1939, Ziolkowski assisted Gutzon Borglum in the carving of the Mount Rushmore Memorial in South Dakota's Black Hills, near Keystone. But he is best known for his memorial commissioned by the Native Americans.
In 1947, Ziolkowski moved to the Black Hills, and began to search for a suitable mountain for his sculpture. He thought the Wyoming Tetons would be the best choice, where the rock would be better for carving, but the Lakota wanted the memorial in the sacred Black Hills on a 600-foot (180 m)-high mountain. The monument was to be the largest sculpture in the world. When completed, it would be 563 feet (172 m) high by 641 feet (195 m) long. Crazy Horse's head would be large enough to contain all the 60-foot (18 m)-high heads of the Presidents at Mount Rushmore.
Crazy Horse Memorial, the world’s largest sculpture now in progress, is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota on US Highway 16/385 just 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore.
Ziolkowski died in 1982 but his family continue the project working with the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation.
Address:
12151 Avenue of the Chiefs
Crazy Horse South Dakota)57730
USA
(605) 673-4681
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