The statue of civil rights heroine Barbara Johns will replace Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Statuary Hall
, one of the five cases considered by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark 1954Advertisementto replace Lee as one of two historical figures representing Virginia in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, where it is now on display as part of the museum’s Lost Cause exhibit.
The panel quickly settled on two as the most qualified: Weitzman, who works out of Weitzman Studios in Brentwood, Md., and Zenos Frudakis, a Pennsylvania artist best known for his Initially, Barry’s former wife, Cora Masters Barry, expressed skepticism that Weitzman, a White man, was chosen to sculpt the former mayor. Yet he soon won her over by including her meaningfully in the creative process and accurately capturing Marion Barry’s essence, she told a Washington Post reporter at the time.
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