Type bronze Location Milwaukee, Wisconsin Created 2001 Owner Miller Park | Dimensions 380 cm (148 in) Artist Omri Amrany Year 2001 | |
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Similar William A Starke Memorial, Spirit of the Firefighter, TA Chapman Memorial, Patrick Cudahy Memorial, Referee | ||
Teamwork makes the dream work
Teamwork is a public sculpture by Omri Amrany located at Miller Park west of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Teamwork is cast in bronze and honors three Iron Workers Local 8 members killed during the construction of the new baseball stadium. The sculpture was commissioned by the Habush, Habush and Rottier Charitable Foundation for $250,000.
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Teamwork
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Teamwork depicts three figures dressed for construction work. All wear jeans, t-shirts, boots and hardhats. One holds a clipboard.
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The sculpture honors William DeGrave, Jerome Starr and Jeffrey Wischer, three ironworkers who were killed by a piece of the stadium's retractable roof that fell when a crane failed during the construction of Miller Park. The widows of the workers, Marjorie DeGrave, Ramona Dulde-Starr and Patricia Wischer, settled a lawsuit against crane-maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of America for $57 million. Attorney Robert L. Habush represented two of the widows in their suit.