Giant Metal Cow Statues - Denver, CO
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N 39° 44.131 W 104° 59.341
13S E 500941 N 4398402
This sculpture is located at W. 12th Ave. and Acoma Street near the Denver Art Museum.
Waymark Code: WMC2XE
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 07/18/2011
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This sculpture by Dan Ostermiller is entitled Scottish Angus Cow and Calf and depicts the humongous animals resting on a grassy patch near the Denver Museum of Art.
This website (
visit link) also informs us:
" Dan Ostermiller was born in 1956 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. His father was a taxidermist and Ostermiller's knowledge of animal anatomy and posture gives his bronze sculptures a remarkable realism. Other examples of his work can be found at the Raymond James Financial Center in St. Petersburg, FL, and in the Benson Park Sculpture Garden in Loveland, CO.
Constructing a monumental bronze sculpture is a time-consuming and difficult task. Ostermiller created small-scale models (maquettes) of Scottish Angus Cow and Calf, and then separated these models into pieces. These pieces were then enlarged and used as models themselves for casting the large bronze panels that would be eventually be fit together to create the monumental animals."