Toronto Boer War Monument

[Dan Morton]

Some will consider this a bit off topic, but good sculpting is good sculpting. Walking around Toronto on a recent trip, I stumbled upon the Boer War Monument. The sculptor was Walter Allward, RCA. Hope you like it.

All the best,
Dan

 

[billyturnip]

Who's going to take up the challenge? 120mm or 75mm.... anyone?

Roger.

 

[megroot]

75 mm would be a nice one.

Marc

 

[Jeff]

You know an interesting thing to do might be to have the members take photos of monuments and statues and post them for inspiration. There is a great monument to merchant marines in San Pedro.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/0QBI-CG9kqQ2oh8rM2gIkg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whisperbee/2644834421/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/icedog/3235624614/

 

[billyturnip]

Good idea Jeff. When I took this in Varna 3 years ago I thought at the time it would make a nice bust.

Roger.

 

[garyjd]

Dan, Great stuff. Pictures like this make excellent references for the budding/seasoned sculptor alike.

Jeff, Man that is great. I can see it (done right) in miniature being an award winner. ~Gary

 

[mil-mart]

Dan very inspirational work, thanks.

Jeff great idea, here's my contribution with a question I hope can be answered.
The first pic is the Virginia Memorial at Gettysburg.
The second could be Shiloh , Antietam, Chancellorsville or any one of several more sites I visited during a 4 week Acw fest a few tears back, please help.

Cheers Ken

 

[Dan Morton]

Too cool!!

All the best,
Dan

 

[PHIL WALDEN]

Toronto Boer War M...

Guys..
love it,..bookmarked for the future ideas....

dont stop here more please..Phil..

 

[Dan Morton]

Hey...if anyone really is interested in doing something like the Canadian soldiers on the monument, I took about 50 photos of them in all. I have other stuff in progress right now and won't do anything with this right away. If a sculptor is interested, drop me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll send them to you in reduced size batches.

All the best,
Dan

 

[Tarok]

Interesting, I never knew there were Canadians troops deployed in SA during the Anglo-Boer War. Then again at school in SA history always focused on the Boer victories and not the "evil" British

 

[carl reid]

There is some fantastic monuments around the world that can't fail to inspire!

Thanks Dan

Carl

 

[gordy]

Great stuff Dan , My great-grandfather served in the Boer War ,27th Battalion, CEF Royal Winnipeg Rifles 1899–1900 and WWI (he signed up when he was 16) I'd like to see some more of the photo's you took

 

[bernhart]

whereabouts in TO is it exactly? Would love to see it next time I'm in TO

 

[Dan Morton]

Sorry I don't remember the streets. I was there for a convention and staying in a hotel. There is a large hotel prominently shown in the photo and there is a dance theater just across the street. It's about 6 blocks from the Elephant and Castle pub. North of most of the business district. Northeast of the convention center about 10 blocks. There was a park to the east of the monument and a Legal Society building of some kind nearby. Northwest of the big indoor mall. Does that help any?

All the best,
Dan