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Artist/Creator (1)	Hart, Frederick (1943-1999)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist, sculptor
Artist/Creator (2)	Joel Meisner and Company, Inc.
Artist/Creator (2).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (2).Role	foundry
Title/Caption	Three Soldiers, (The)
Variant Title/Caption	Three Servicemen, (The); Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Larger Work/Entity	Vietnam Memorials (Vietnam Veterans Memorial, National Mall)
Site/Creative Center	Washington, D.C. (United States)
Date of Work	Commissioned 1982. 1984. Dedicated Nov. 11, 1984.
Description of View	Oblique overall view from back right, showing figures' left sides. Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial in background
Notes	Sponsor/Developer: Funding for Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam Memorial came from contributions made to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee. The Vietnam Memorial by Frederick Hart was supported principally by a grant from Ross Perot. Project Description: The contemporary memorials to Vietnam Veterans by Lin and Hart are a contrast in style and approach. Lin's work consists of two 240-foot-long black marble walls that taper to points, radiating from a ten-foot-tall below-grade intersection. One wall points toward the Lincoln Memorial and the other toward the Washington Monument. Inscribed in the two walls are the 57,692 names of the war dead. Hart's work consists of a realistic bronze sculpture of three infantrymen, approximately 9 feet tall. Project History: Jan Scruggs, an infantry corporal in the Vietnam War, participated in a veterans group in Washington, D.C. which developed the idea for a memorial to the over 57,000 Americans who died in the war. Jan Scruggs was severely wounded in Vietnam. Through his leadership in creating a fundraising program and with support from Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland, both money and a site were acquired for the memorial. Scruggs formed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee, which raised enough money through small contributions to defray the cost of building the memorial. Senator Mathias was instrumental in obtaining permission to use Constitution Gardens as the memorial site. A national competition to select a design for the memorial was initiated and a panel of eight men was selected to jury the competition. The competition opened in 1980, to anyone who wished to submit plans, but there were three basic requirements: the design had to have the names of all of the soldiers who died in the war; it had to be reflective and contemplative in nature; and it could not make political statements. More than 1400 entries were submitted. In a five-day period in May of 1981, the panel selected the work of Maya Ying Ling, a 22-year-old architecture student at Yale University. Controversy quickly developed, as the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Committee members were sharply divided over the selected project. Tom Cathart, a strong opponent of the design and one of the early organizers, raised seed money to create another, more figurative sculpture. A $165,000 contribution from Texas millionaire Ross Perot launched a counterattack on Lin's design. Ross's political clout with Congress eventually reopened the design competition; through the support of 27 Republican Congressmen, President Reagan intervened, and a compromise soon resulted. The opposition failed to throw out the initial design, but they were able to obtain approval for a figurative sculpture to be located at the same site. The opposition group, led by Cathart, opposed the design by Maya Ying Lin for three basic reasons. First, they believed that it presented a clear political statement, represented by the black color. Second, the names on the memorial were placed in the order of their death and not in random or alphabetical order, suggesting the superior importance of the individual over the greater purpose for which they gave their lives. Third, the memorial would be shaped like a 'V', which was a familiar anti-war symbol made with the fingers. Frederick Hart was selected to design an eight-foot-high bronze statue of three infantrymen, located next to a 50-foot flag pole. A directory was also created so that visitors could locate a soldier's name on the memorial by Maya Ying Lin.
Technique/Process	sculpture, metalworking, casting
Materials/Medium	Sculpture: bronze. Base: highly polished black Indian granite.
Dimensions	Sculpture: approx. 8 x 5 x 3 ft. Base: approx. 2.5 x 12 x 8 ft.
Century	20th Century
Location.Current Site/City & Country	Constitution Gardens, The Mall. Washington, DC (United States)
Subject	Sculpture, American Architecture, American Sculpture, 20th Century Public sculpture War memorials Monuments Soldiers' monuments Figures, male Soldiers
Publisher	ART on FILE
Publisher.Location	ART on FILE. 1837 East Shelby St. Seattle, Washington 98112 (United States). www.artonfile.com
Set/Project Title	Contemporary Monuments and Memorials
Reference Number	Art on File MM-1(10)-10
Collection Title	Sculpture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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