From saving The Valentine to furthering conversations ... and covered in pink and yellow paint. The Jefferson Davis statue was the first Confederate monument taken down in Richmond after George ...

In June 2020, protesters in Richmond used ropes to pull down the bronze statue of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis ... Now the Davis statue is at The Valentine – a museum that occupies ...

On the evening of June 10, 2020, at the height of that year’s nationwide uprising against racial injustice and police brutality, a group of protestors gathered around a statue of Jefferson Davis ...

Josh’s focus groups led us to experiment with displaying the recumbent Jefferson Davis statue alongside Edward Valentine’s “Recumbent Lee.” It garnered strong emotional responses and showcased how art ...

Jefferson Davis ... Black Lives Matter protesters pulled down an eight-foot-tall statue of him that had been made by Edward Valentine and erected on Richmond’s Monument Avenue in 1907.

Jefferson Davis lies prostrate at ... The museum owns 800 pieces by Edward Valentine, the sculptor of the Davis statue and a brother of the museum’s founder. (The artist’s studio, under ...

Martin, opted to exhibit the battered, paint-splattered Jefferson Davis statue from Monument Avenue’s grandiose ... on display in its ravaged state since last June, is the work of Edward Virginius ...

(metmuseum.org) The Jefferson Davis statue is on display in the “This is Richmond ... horizontally in the museum that also displays the studio of its sculptor, Edward V. Valentine. It is also poignant ...

Old Jeff Davis now lies on his back ... just another object on display at the Valentine, a local history museum that also houses the studio where artist Edward Valentine sculpted this and other ...

The display of Edward Valentine’s statues in two different ... which is using the display of the Jefferson Davis statue to query its visitors about the role of public art and the future ...

Jefferson Davis statue on display at the Valentine Museum (Autumn Childress ... The bronze statue was designed by Edward Valentine in a studio that still sits in the courtyard of the museum. After ...

The Jefferson Davis statue on Monument Avenue was erected ... Visitor feedback will inform the Valentine’s interpretation of the Edward Valentine Sculpture Studio, where the Davis statue was ...