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Battle of the Bulge Memorial
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Chris ScalaSculpture (EXTERIOR)
Lake Eola Park
About the Artwork
Life size bronze sculpture depicts a soldier holding a grenade, with a gun slung over his shoulder. The inscription reads, “Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge in Ardennes. Dedicated to the gallant men and women who participated in the Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 16th of December, 1944 through 25th of January, 1945 in Belgium and Luxembourg, the greatest battle ever fought by the United States Army. The veterans of the Battle of the Bulge assembled here on the 16th of December, 1999, to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the ever-famous American victory and honor all the World War II veterans.” The sides of the memorial display medallions representing different divisions of the armed forces.
About the Artist
Chris Scala
Sculptor Chris Scala is a Florida based artist whose work has been placed in private, public and institutional collections around the U.S. and Europe. He works in traditional materials such as marble and cast bronze but also in unconventional media such as fabric woven of heavy metal wire and in minerals precipitated from seawater.
This monument to the Battle of the Bulge placed in Eola Park in Orlando is one of his several works honoring veterans around the U.S. Most notable among them is a National Monument at Wright Patterson Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio honoring the men and women who supported and flew the B-26 Marauder in WWII. This work in cast Bronze and granite is the largest monument in there sculpture garden.
Did you know?
The famous Florida Highwaymen school of art is represented with an enlargement of a Harold Newton painting on the side of OUC's Reliable Plaza
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