From Italy where he studied, sculptor Victor Riu became a resident of Coopersburg, Pennsylvania where for many years he was a carver of gravestones for the family business, Coopersburg Granite Company.
The majority of his art pieces were carved from Coopersburg granite that he and his family quarried. His work is at the Pennsylvania Academy, Lehigh University, and the Woodmere Art Gallery in Philadelphia.
He sculpted the black granite eagle that is in front of the Chapel at (showing 500 of 2561 characters). |
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