Presidents Park
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Presidents Park was a ten-acre sculpture park and associated indoor museum formerly located in Williamsburg, Virginia in the United States. The park contained 18-to-20-foot high busts of the president
The original park in 2005
Busts of Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon (2005)
Mount Rushmore
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The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial featuring a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, about 2 mi southwest of Keystone, South Da
Presidents Park
…location now offers periodic tours. In the year 2000, when returning from a trip to Canada, Houston artist David Adickes was inspired as he drove past Mount Rushmore to sculpt a series of statues. From 2000 through 2004, Adickes produced the statues in his studio in Houston, Texas…
View of Mount Rushmore, showing Gutzon Borglum's sculpted heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln
Doane Robinson was inspired by this view on the Needles Highway to create the sculpture, though this location was ultimately not chosen
The completed sculpture
Mount Rushmore (Six Grandfathers) before construction, c. 1905