One statue did find a new home, as Davis is now on display at the city’s Valentine Museum ... Lee, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, President Jefferson Davis, and local scientist-turned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...