Artwork Types > Memorial

Memorial

Monuments or structures built to preserve the memory of beings or events.

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Works of Art

Teaching guide: The City Beautiful Movement

1922

1890–2021

Robert Mills and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Washington Monument

completed 1884

Douglas Coupland, Terry Fox Memorial

2011

Thomas Crawford, George Washington Equestrian Monument

1850–57, remaining figures completed in 1869

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Equal Justice Initiative)

2018

Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara

c. 2675–2625 B.C.E.

Monument Avenue and the Lost Cause

1890–2021

Defeated, heroized, dismantled: Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument

1890

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