Statue of Sequoyah

Statue in Washington, D.C.

Sequoyah
The statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection
Artist	Vinnie Ream
Medium	Bronze sculpture
Subject	Sequoyah
Location	Washington, D.C., United States

Sequoyah, or Sequoya, is a bronze sculpture depicting the Cherokee silversmith and inventor of the same name by Vinnie Ream (and completed by George Julian Zolnay), installed in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was given by the U.S. state of Oklahoma in 1917.^[1]

References

^ "Sequoyah". Architect of the Capitol. Archived from the original on September 30, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2017.

External links

Media related to Sequoyah by Vinnie Ream at Wikimedia Commons

National Statuary Hall Collection

Statues

Replaced	William Allen Thomas Hart Benton William Jennings Bryan Zachariah Chandler Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry George Washington Glick John Campbell Greenway James Harlan John James Ingalls Thomas Starr King Robert E. Lee Julius Sterling Morton Uriah M. Rose Edmund Kirby Smith

National Statuary Hall
- Hall of Columns
- United States Capitol crypt
Statue of Rosa Parks (U.S. Capitol)
United States Capitol
- Rotunda
- Emancipation Hall

Category
Commons

v t e Vinnie Ream
Sculptures	U.S. Capitol statue of Abraham Lincoln (1871) David Farragut (1881) Edwin B. Hay (1906) Samuel Kirkwood (1913) Sequoyah (dedicated 1917)
Namesakes	Vinita, Oklahoma
Related	Richard L. Hoxie (husband)