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Spirit of Crazy Horse, (sculpture). Artist:  Ziolkowski, Korczak, 1908-1982, sculptor. Title:  Spirit of Crazy Horse, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Crazy Horse Monument, (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated June 3, 1948. Medium:  Granite. Dimensions:  Approx. H. 563 ft. x W. 641 ft. Description:  Carved into side of mountain is a figure of Crazy Horse mounted on a horse. His proper left arm is extended forward as he points with his proper left hand. Subject:  Portrait male -- Crazy Horse Occupation -- Other -- Chief Ethnic -- Indian -- Oglala Equestrian Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- South Dakota Earthwork Site-specific Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Crazy Horse Memorial, Crazy Horse, South Dakota 57730 Located Thunderhead Mountain, Custer County, South Dakota Remarks:  Crazy Horse (1842?-1877) was chief of the Oglala tribe of the Sioux. He is most famous for leading the battle of Little Big Horn, in which Custer was killed, June 25, 1876. Korczak Ziolkowski began this monument after having been invited by the Lakota Sioux tribal chiefs in 1939 to sculpt a great Indian hero. Ziolkowski began working on the monument in 1948. The monument was unfinished when Ziolkowski died in 1982, but work has continued posthumously and was still in progress at the time of the Save Outdoor Sculpture survey in 1994. Work on the monument is financed primarily by an admission fee. IAS files contain excerpts from the book "An Illustrated History of the Arts in South Dakota," by Arthur R. Huseboe, Sioux Falls, SD: The Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 1989, pg. 257-258; and from South Dakota Magazine (May/June 1993): pg. 12. IAS files also contain a 1994 brochure from the Crazy Horse Memorial, and article from the Washington Post, Dec. 12, 1996, Sect. A, pg. 1, 16. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, South Dakota survey, 1994. Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985. Wolanin, Barbara, 1992. Dupre, Judith, "Monuments: America's History in Art and Memory," New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2007, pg. 111. Illustration:  South Dakota Magazine (May/June 1993): pg. 12. Washington Post, Dec. 12, 1996, Sect. A, pg. 1. Dupre, Judith, "Monuments: America's History in Art and Memory," New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2007, pg. 111. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 76008568   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 76008568 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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