Other categories that they acknowledge as plentiful but will only be represented by a few examples are funerary monuments and architectural sculpture. I’m probably going to also make these caveats and include one more– there will only be a few dinosaurs represented.

The dinosaurs, which, like many other cities starting with Chicago’s cows, were 100 statues painted by various artists and placed all over the city. They have been sold to benefit the Carnegie Museums, and quite a few are still on display. While at one time I found them really interesting (thought about trying to get a picture of me with all of them until I realized there was one in the airport past the security checkpoint), there’s just too many and I don’t want this to be a Pittsburgh Dinosaur Statue blog.

I’ve since graduated and am staying in this fine city that has sculpture in every neighborhood. Recently, I checked Discovering Pittsburgh’s Sculpture by Marilyn Evert and Vernon Gay out of the library and got many of my questions answered! It also inspired me to start this blog for two reasons: one is that the book was published in 1983, and as all Pittsburghers know, there are lots of places where things “used to be”. Many sculptures have moved and there are many more that have been added since then, and I think the subject matter is due for an update.

The second reason is that the book left me wanting more. Inherent to the book is having to leave things out due to the limited amount of space. I can’t imagine having to choose only one or two pictures for each piece!! I think part of the fun is seeing the environment in which the sculpture resides as well as the detail of the piece. Thankfully, the web offers an almost limitless canvas, and showing multiple pictures of each piece is exactly what I plan to do.

I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I’m enjoying writing and photographing!