MacArthur Monument, (sculpture).

MacArthur Monument, (sculpture).

Burnham, Roger Noble, 1876-1962, sculptor.

Kellogg, Harold Field, architect.

MacArthur Monument, (sculpture).

Dedicated 1955.

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete.

Sculpture: approx. 6 x 2 x 1 ft.; Base: approx. 2 x 2 x 2 ft.

(On right exedra wall:) STATESMAN/"COULD I HAVE BUT A LINE A CENTURY/HENCE CREDITING A CONTRIBUTION TO/THE ADVANCE OF PEACE. I WOULD GLADLY/YIELD EVERY HONOR WHICH HAS BEEN ACCORDED BY WAR." (On left exedra wall:) SOLDIER/"BATTLES ARE NOT WON BY ARMS ALONE.THERE MUST EXIST ABOVE ALL ELSE A/SPIRITUAL IMPULSE - A WILL TO VICTORY./IN WAR THERE CAN BE NO SUBSTITUTE/FOR VICTORY.

Portrait of General Douglas MacArthur dressed in full uniform with hat, standing "at attention" his hands at his sides. The statue is part of a larger exedra and fountain pool setting. The exedra wall contains quotes from MacArthur as a soldier and statesman. The fountain pool (no longer operating) contains shapes representing the Pacific Islands.

Portrait male -- MacArthur, Douglas -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- General

Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Los Angeles

Administered by City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, Public Art Division, 433 South Spring Street, 10th floor, Los Angeles, California 90013

Located MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, California

The statue of MacArthur was done by Roger Noble Burnham and the monument was designed by Harold Field Kellogg. The memorial was vandalized in the 1980s. IAS files contain copy of Municipal Art Department Inventory form; an excerpt from Merrill A. Reed's "Historical Statues and Monuments in California," and newspaper clippings from the Los Angeles Times.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995.

Wharton & Griswold Associates, Inc., 1996.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1976.

Nodal, Adolfo, "How the Arts Made a Difference, The MacArthur Park Public Art Program," Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1989, pg. 54, 56.

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