Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Hiker

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Pittsburgh’s copy of “The Hiker” by Allen George Newman stands beside Frick Fine Arts Center.

Another of the fine sculptures in Schenley Plaza and Schenley Park is this memorial, which honors the service of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, the Eighteenth Volunteer Infantry (Duquesne Grays) and Battery B (Hampton Battery) in the Spanish-American War.

While the other sculptures in the park are originals, this one is a copy of a work created by Allen Newman for the New York State Building at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition.

100_2280 Right: A plaque from the trees honoring the mothers and wives of soldiers flank “The Hiker.”

Pittsburgh's statue, which stands between two memorial trees planted at the same time near the Schenley Bridge and Frick Fine Arts Center on Schenley Drive, was dedicated in April 1925. Other copies of the work were put up in such places as Buffalo, Staten Island, Providence, R.I., and Monongahela, Pa.

Communities that bought the statue also received a free pedestal design from Newman. However, his grandiose plan was rejected and the county architect completed the finished product.

One puzzle surrounding the memorial concerns the fact the county spent $27,500 when the list price of the statue was $1,750.

Source: Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture by Marilyn Evert and Vernon Gay, 1986, University of Pittsburgh Press

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Plaque on the base of “The Hiker.”

Map picture

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