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|  Sculptor David Adickes is known for a major project titled Presidents Park
in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he created 42 portraits bust of
American presidents. Each sculpture is twenty feet tall, and their size
was the subject of much protest and controversy. However, a court
ruling allowed them to stay.
Source: Art & Antiques, November 2000
Now mainly known as a creator of giant sculpture, Adickes spent most of
his professional life teaching, painting, and creating small
bronzes. A commission for Houston's Performing Art Center in 1982
marks the beginning of his giant sculpture design. After the
36-foot tall cellist called the Virtuoso in a cubist style, he
created a number of abstract works, including a giant cornet for the
jazz stage at the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Circa 1994 he finished a giant statue of Sam Houston, first President
of Texas, followed by his 42 statue tribute to United States Presidents.
Adickes has degrees in mathematics and physics which serve him well in
the engineering of his works. Working on a giant sculpture series
which includes the Beatles, and he hopes to end with a 280-foot tall
cowboy statue, Adickes is also painting again.
Source: Susan Warren. "Concrete Cowboy: Sculptor of Tall Art Sets Sights Higher," in The Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2006 (page A1)
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