Sculpting History Resources – Featured Stories

Edward Valentine reading in his studio surrounded by tools, papers, and a workbench with an artist’s mannequin sitting on top.

Essay: Edward Valentine's Life and Career

View of the Valentine Studio with sculptures in the foreground and along the walls of the space with a large, arched window in one wall.

Edward Valentine's Sculpture Studio

Essay: Racist Caricatures by Edward Valentine

Seven Valentine brothers, three seated in front and four standing behind, with three painted portraits on the wall behind them of the their father, mother, and aunt.

The Early Valentine Museum, 1898–1930

People standing in a confederate flag formation around a monument.

The Lost Cause Myth: How the South Flipped the American Civil War Story

Richmond's Monument Avenue: Memorializing the Lost Cause Myth

A group of people around the Lee Monument that is covered by a veil.

Monument Avenue: Robert. E. Lee Monument

J.E.B. Stuart Monument on Monument Avenue. Stuart is on his horse looking backward. There is a school group of young women circling the statue all carrying flowers or flowered wreaths for a Memorial Day celebration. The girls are from the Collegiate School for Girls. May 1917.

Monument Avenue: J.E.B. Stuart Monument

A design in pencil by Edward Valentine of the Jefferson Davis Monument with a tall pillar surrounded by lowered colonnade and a seated figure of Davis in the middle.

Monument Avenue: Jefferson Davis Monument

Romanesque temple design in a park with “The Times, Richmond, VA, 1896” in the lower left and “The Proposed Jefferson Davis Monument” across the bottom.

Jefferson Davis Monument Cornerstone Box

A crane in the background and workers in the foreground flank the graffiti-covered equestrian Stonewall Jackson Monument During a downpour, a clap of thunder rang out at the moment the crane lifted the statue from the pedestal followed by First Baptist Church ringing their bells. Team Henry removed the pedestal in early 2022 and paved over the intersection.

Monument Avenue: Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Monument

The Maury Monument with a bronze globe on top of a pedestal with a figure of a seated Maury in the fenced median of Monument Avenue with trees.

Monument Avenue: Matthew Fontaine Maury Monument

A Black woman, a white girl, and a Black boy in the foreground with the Arthur Ashe Monument in the background.

Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe Monument