Carl Milles

Every post here is by Carl Milles.

Erisava Staff 2d ago

Genius by Carl Milles, 1949

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Genius

Milles spent a big chunk of his career teaching sculpture in Michigan, so a lot of his best-known fountains are actually in the US, not here.

Erisava Staff 5d ago

Orpheus' well by Carl Milles, 1936

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Orpheus' well

It's Orpheus, the one whose music could raise the dead — the figures around him are supposed to be souls pulled up by the sound. It stands right outside the concert hall, so the joke, if it is one, was on purpose.