Charles Kek: Creator of the Flag of Virginia

>>129269443
God I love my state

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Shameless self bump

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>>129269626
Nice desu I thought of my home state Illinois after reading about the John Wilkes Booth thing because Illinois if the Land of Lincoln.

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>>129269443
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Keck
>Charles Keck (September 9, 1875 – April 23, 1951) was an American sculptor from New York City, New York.[1]
>September 9
>9
>April 23
>23
9/23

>>129271401
Early life and educationEdit

Keck studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York with Philip Martiny, and was an assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens from 1893 to 1898. He also attended the American Academy in Rome. In 1921 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1928. He is best known for his monuments and architectural sculpture. His interment was located at Fishkill Rural cemetery.
CareerEdit
Architectural sculpturesEdit

Brooklyn Museum, Genius of Islam, McKim, Mead and White, architects, NYC, 1908
Pennsylvania Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1908
Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial, Pittsburgh. 1910
Oakland City Hall, Palmer & Hornbostel architects, Oakland, California, 1914
Pittsburgh City-County Building, Palmer & Hornbostel architects, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1916
Wilmington City Hall, Palmer & Hornbostel architects, Wilmington, Delaware, 1917
Education Building, Albany, New York
Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Schultze & Weaver architects, NYC, 1931
Essex County Building Annex, Newark, New Jersey, c. 1930
Jackson County Court House, Wight & Wight, architects, Kansas City Missouri, 1934
Bronx County Courthouse, Freedlander & Hausle architects, Bronx, New York, 1933[2]
Campus gates, Columbia University, New York City

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Monuments and memorialsEdit

The John B. Murphy Memorial, Chicago, Illinois
Amicitia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
George Washington, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Manchester Bridge statues, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1917
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Sculpture, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1919
Thomas Jonathan Jackson Sculpture, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1921
Duke Family sarcophagi, Memorial Chapel, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Angel of Peace, Exhibition Place, Toronto, 1930
The Lincoln Monument of Wabash, Indiana, 1932
Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Alabama
Father Duffy, Duffy Square, New York City, 1937
Andrew Jackson, Kansas City, Missouri
Ernest Haass Memorial, Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan
George Rogers Clark Memorial, Springfield, Ohio
Huey Long Memorial, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Liberty Monument, Ticonderoga, New York
Listening Post, Lynchburg, Virginia

In 1913 Keck designed a memorial plaque that was cast from metal that had been salvaged from the USS Maine after it was raised in Havana harbor the previous year. Over a thousand of the plaques were cast and they are spread unevenly all over the United States. In 1931, Keck completed the Great Seals of the Commonwealth of Virginia which had been commissioned by the Commonwealth. The obverse of the seal is still used to this day and appears on the state flag.
Numismatic worksEdit

1915-S Panama-Pacific Exposition Gold Dollar
1927 Vermont, Battle of Bennington Sesquicentennial Half Dollar
1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial Half Dollar

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we love you guys
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>>129272338

Is Virginia really actually a decent place to live? I feel like I've never met anybody from Virginia. Probably because they don't want ever leave their apparently based state

>>129269443
>https://en.m.

when are we going to ban all phoneposters?

>>129274901

I lived in NoVa for a while, which isn't really like the rest of Virginia.

It was pretty good though, except for the horrible traffic and the political consultants sucking the life blood of the American people.

>>129274901
Foreigners always complain about the weather here and the typical dense population of liberals and minorities around the cities tearing down and changing historical items, other than that, it is nice.

>>129274901
Slow being colonized by nj/ny plus third world garbage in nova. Richmond suburbs are a pretty good place. The greater virginia beach area is an ok, not great place to live. I personally think the college towns are the best because the surrounding area is white and affordable, while you're not far from more upscale living.

Nova a shit.

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>>129269443
Virginia has the best seal and flag.

What other state can claim a flag that has nudity AND violence in it?

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>>129269443
xDD

>>129269443
>(((John Wilkes Booth)))

I'm serious, look it up.

Proud to say I voted Corey Stewart for my county council