Bill of Rights Eagle

Bronze Monument, 2017

Antonin Scalia Law School
George Mason University
Arlington, VA

Full-scale monument editions of the Bill of Rights Eagle are permanently placed at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University, Washington D. C. The subject of the eagle is a common thread through Greg Wyatt’s career of permanently-placed sculptures in the public square: one of his first commissioned works was a 1978 eagle for the American Bureau of Shipping. Additional eagle-oriented monuments are placed at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, and in the north courtyard of the State Department's Harry S Truman Building in Washington, D.C. (Soaring American Eagle). For these works, Greg has studied the anatomical composition of eagles, from bone structure to feather count and the placement of their joints. In addition to the study of eagles, wings are prominent in the his works, which combine a serious morphological consideration of the biological forms with the artistic incarnation of imaginary forms of fantasy and spirituality.

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