- City:
- International Falls, MN
- Site Type:
- Sculpture and Bas Relief, Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Arts Project (FAP), Arts Programs
- Started:
- 1940
- Completed:
- 1942
- Artist:
- Evelyn Raymond
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The front of the High School Sports Stadium in International Falls, MN, features a bold, concrete relief sculpture of 1940’s-era athletes created by a Minnesota-born sculptor named Evelyn Raymond. Raymond created the sculpture through the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project.
Source notes
(https://www.ifallsjournal.com/news/community/sculpture-s-work-from-the-s-featured-today/article_5ffbb905-6485-5ec9-984f-683ea0eaacde.html), accessed February 25, 2018.
Evelyn Raymond, A Sculpture’s Own Story, An oral history, edited and introduced by Thomas O’Sullivan
(https://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/03/14/mnhistory-evelyn-raymond#gallery), accessed February 25, 2018.
(https://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/56/v56i02p085-095.pdf), accessed February 25, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Seth Hardmeyer on February 25, 2018.
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