Joseph Warren, M. D.

Artist John Nick Pappas (American, born 1935)

Date1976

MediumCast bronze

Dimensions1'10" x2'4"x2'4"

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of the WSU Bicentennial Commission, 1976

Object numberUAC482

DescriptionThis small, yet moving sculpture commemorates General Joseph Warren, M.D., who served as a voluntary private soldier and chief executive of the revolutionary Massachusetts government and died at the battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. John Nick Pappas received both his BFA and MA degrees from WSU. Pappas taught art at Eastern Michigan University for 40 years. In 1977 he completed The Processsion, a monumental figurative sculpture commissioned for Michigan’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield headquarters.

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