Word: andersson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Orpheus fountain in Stockholm was finished in 1936 by Carl Emil Andersson Milles, Sweden's greatest living sculptor. In 1931, in his third year as resident sculptor at Detroit's suburban Cranbrook Academy, Sculptor Milles met Alderman Aloe's widow in St. Louis and learned her desire for a group of fountains in Aloe Plaza. In 1936 Mrs. Aloe put up $12,500, the city of St. Louis put up $47,500, and Sculptor Milles was commissioned to do for St. Louis what he had done for Stockholm...
This boldly romantic Indian God of Peace had been made for St. Paul by Sweden's great, famed Sculptor Carl Emil Andersson Milles, whose international reputation overawed literal-minded objectors to his scheme. The idea had come to Sculptor Milles before the St. Paul commission, when he was watching a New Year's Eve celebration in which 3,000 Oklahoma Indians quietly listened while an old Chief spoke of peace with a "deep, masculine feeling of brotherhood and understanding...