Alan LeQuire (born 1955) is an American sculptor of the late 20th and early 21st century. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, much of his work is displayed in public areas of his hometown. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Italian Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA). ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... The 21st century is the present century of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 36th 109,247 km² 195 km 710 km 2. ...

LeQuire's father is retired from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he served on the faculty as a physician and researcher. His mother is a painter, art teacher, and writer. The young LeQuire showed an early interest in sculpture. While an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, he studied independently under professor of sculpture Puryear Mims and Middle Tennessee State University sculptor Jim Gibson. He spent his senior year in France, studied art history, and earned a degree in English. After a year in Rome learning bronze casting as an assistant to New York artist Milton Hebald, LeQuire entered the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. Vanderbilt University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Physician examining a child A physician is a person who practices medicine. ... An Italian Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA). ... Vanderbilt University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Middle Tennessee State University (founded September 11, 1911, and commonly abbreviated as MTSU) is an American university located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian. ... This article is about the capital of Italy. ... Assorted ancient bronze castings found as part of a cache, probably intended for recycling. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a public university in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system. ... For alternate uses, see MFA (disambiguation). ...

Sculptor Alan LeQuire painting the detail of Athena Parthenos during the gilding phase.

LeQuire stands out for work of great scale, usually large public commissions. His most famous work is the replica of Phidias' Athena Parthenos that stands in the naos of the full-scale reconstruction of the Acropolis Parthenon in Nashville's Centennial Park. This statue, cast in a composite of gypsum and fiberglass on a steel and aluminum armature, is currently the largest piece of indoor sculpture in the Western World, standing almost 42 feet (13 meters) tall. LeQuire received the commission for the work in 1982, and it was unveiled in 1990 in a stark, white finish. In 2002, LeQuire oversaw a polychroming and gilding process that brought the statue to an appearance very close to what ancient Greek visitors would have seen at the original Parthenon. This article is about the goddess Athena. ... Phidias (or Pheidias) son of Charmides, (c. ... This article is about the goddess Athena. ... A cella, in Ancient Greek and Roman temples was the central room that housed cult statues. ... The Parthenon in Nashvilles Centennial Park is a full-scale reconstruction of the original Greek Parthenon A full-scale replica of the Parthenon in Athens was built in 1897 in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States, as part of Tennessees Centennial Exposition; Nashville has long been dubbed the... Acropolis in Athens. ... The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west. ... There are several places in the world called Centennial Park: Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia Centennial Park, New South Wales is a park in Sydney, Australia Centennial Park, Canada Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, USA exists on the former grounds of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition This is a disambiguation page... Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O. // Chemical structure Heating gypsum to between 100°C and 150°C (302°F) partially dehydrates the mineral by driving off exactly 75% of the water contained in its chemical structure. ... Bundle of fiberglass Fiberglass or fibreglass is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. ... The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ... Aluminum is a soft and lightweight metal with a dull silvery appearance, due to a thin layer of oxidation that forms quickly when it is exposed to air. ... Armature is usually the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Polychrome is one of the terms used to describe the use of multiple colors in one entity. ... To cover something in a thin layer of gold or a material that looks like gold. ...

Another work of enormous scale is Musica, a bronze statue unveiled in 2003 that sits in a grassy knoll at the center of a roundabout where Division Street meets 17th Avenue South in the Music Row area of Nashville. Musica is a statue of nine nude figures, male and female, dancing in a circle as a group. The work was controversial in conservative Nashville because of the representation of frontal nudity, although it is generally considered that the work is entirely tasteful and not at all sexualized. This article needs cleanup. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A roundabout, rotary (the term used almost universally in the US state of Massachusetts), or gyratory circus is a type of road junction (or traffic calming device) at which traffic streams around a central island, after first yielding to the circulating traffic. ... Music Row is an area just to the southwest of Downtown Nashville, Tennessee that is home to hundreds of businesses related to the country music, gospel music, and Christian music industries. ... American conservatism is a political mindset that incorporates many different ideologies under the blanket heading of conservative. ... Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing. ...

LeQuire is also an accomplished portrait artist whose commissioned pieces are most often portraits of individuals.

Other works by LeQuire include:

• Life-size bronze sculptures at Blair School of Music and near Kirkland Hall at Vanderbilt University.
• A heroic bronze of Timothy Demonbreun, French fur trapper and an early Nashville inhabitant, was completed in 1996 and now stands on the west bank of the Cumberland River.
• Tennessee's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, a well-composed grouping of three figures in action, is located on War Memorial Plaza, the building the houses the Tennessee General Assembly.
• In progress are two monuments to the Women's Rights Movement: In Nashville, a large bronze relief for the Tennessee State Capitol will commemorate the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. And in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, he is creating a sculptural group featuring life-size portraits of Tennessee Women's Suffrage activists Elizabeth Meriwether, Anne Dudley, and Lizzie Crozier French to be installed in a downtown park. Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, thus making it part of the U.S. Constitution.
• Bronze reliefs of Tennessee scenes and wildlife are displayed in the Grand Reading Room of the recently opened downtown Nashville Public Library.

LeQuire has stated that by representing the human figure, his pieces must consider humanity and its relationship to the past. The ideas behind the work emerge from what LeQuire perceives as the collective cultural history. The forms themselves reconnect us to the noble figurative tradition in art, which continues unbroken to the present. LeQuire sees the central mystery of sculpture as bringing life to the inanimate and having the viewer recognize in the piece the power of another human soul. Vanderbilt University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Nashville, Tennessee. ... // Indian trade The fur trade (also called the Indian trade) was a huge part of the early history of contact in North America between European-Americans and American Indians (now often called Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada). ... Length 1,106 km Elevation of the source 480 m Average discharge 3,217 m³/s Area watershed 46,830 km² Origin Oven Fork, Kentucky Mouth Ohio River Basin countries United States The Cumberland River is an important waterway in the southern United States. ... The Tennessee General Assembly is the formal name of the legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. ... The Tennessee State Capitol, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is the home of the Tennessee legislature. ... The Nineteenth Amendment may refer to the: Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - guarantees women the right to vote. ... Page I of the Constitution of the United States of America Page II of the United States Constitution Page III of the United States Constitution Page IV of the United States Constitution The Syng inkstand, with which the Constitution was signed The Constitution of the United States is the supreme... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... Nickname: The Marble City, K-Town, Big Orange Country, Knox Vegas Location Location within the U.S. State of Tennessee Coordinates , Government Cities in Tennessee Tennessee Mayor Bill Haslam (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 254. ... Suffrage parade, New York City, 1912 The movement for womens suffrage is a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage-the right to vote-to women. ... Anne Dudley (born 7-May-1956) is an orchestral composer and pop musician and was the BBC Concert Orchestras Composer in Association between January 2002 and January 2005. ... For other meanings, see Relief (disambiguation) In the art of sculpture, a relief is an artwork where a modelled form projects out of a flat background. ... Various species of deer are commonly seen wildlife across the Americas and Eurasia. ...

LeQuire has received numerous awards and commendations. He was a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellow in 1986, and received a Tennessee Governor's Citation in 1987. In 1990 he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Design Award for Athena Parthenos. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Notes 1East was Secretary of State for Tennessee from 1862-1865, appointed by Andrew Johnson, the military governor of the state under Union occupation during the American Civil War. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is the professional organization for architects in the United States. ...

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