About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Outdoor sculptures in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, List of public art in Milwaukee, The Boy with the Leaking Boot, Wisconsin Workers Memorial, Henry Bergh, The Calling, Abraham Lincoln, Goethe-Schiller Monument, Family, Stratiformis, Walkways Through the Wall, The Victorious Charge, Count Casimir Pulaski, Bronze Fonz, Chrysalis, George Washington, Great Double, Christian Wahl, Woodland Indian and Whistling Swans, Forevertron, The Hill Climber, R.D. Whitehead Monument, Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Celebrating the Arts, Referee, Deflected Jets, Letter Carriers' Monument, Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology, Boy with Goose, Polyphony, Menomonee, Spirit of commerce, Bay View Series, On Watch, Elk, Three Bronze Discs, Holocaust Memorial, Angel in a Cage, Wind Leaves, Immigrant Mother, Solomon Juneau, A Place to Sit, Float, Argo, Leif, the Discoverer, Pattern, Milwaukee Arts Board, Eight Stone Lions, Gertie the Duck, RiverSculpture!, Engine Company No 10, Cleopatra's Wedge. Excerpt: This is a list of public art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Works are listed geographically from oldest to newest. This is a list of public art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Works are listed geographically from oldest to newest. The Boy with the Leaking Boot (sometimes known as The Boy with the Leaky Boot) is a statue showing a young boy, with a bare right foot, holding up his right boot and looking at it. The statue is about four feet tall, and in many cases forms a fountain, with water emerging from the toe of the boot. There are at least 24, and reportedly "hundreds" of examples. The origins of the statue are obscure. The boy is reported to be a young Italian newspaper seller who drowned, or an American army drummer-boy who carried water in his leaking boot to help fallen comrades, or a young fire-fighter either using his boot in a bu...
