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Fishing (sculpture)

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Year
  
1938

Created
  
1938

Artist
  
Karl Kahlich

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Type
  
carved Currie Park limestone

Location
  
4434 W. Marion St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Owner
  
Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee

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Fishing is a public art work by Karl Kahlich located in Monument Park at the Parklawn development of the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee, northwest of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Fishing is carved from local limestone and depicts a figure in a cap holding a large fish. The sculpture was installed in 1938 as one of four public artworks based on the theme of leisure activity.

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Description

Fishing is carved from a large block of limestone quarried at nearby Currie Park. The figure's head wears a cap and his hand holds a fish. Grasping the fish with one hand, the figure uses the other hand to remove a hook from the fish's mouth.

Information

The artwork was commissioned during the federal Works Progress Administration's campaign to put Americans to work by improving local infrastructure under Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. When Milwaukee constructed Parklawn using WPA labor, Karl Kahlich was commissioned to create decorative sculptures for the development's massive park. Kahlich was a participant in the Federal Art Project of the WPA.

Condition

In 1998, Parklawn underwent a $34 million revitalization and the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee decided to restore the sculptures and give them a prominent location in a new common green space called Monument Park. Walkways connect Kahlich's Fishing and Music with a central gazebo, informational plaques, time capsules, a stone war memorial, and other artwork.

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Fishing (sculpture) Wikipedia