Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (Milwaukee)

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial

Artist| Gautam Pal
Year| 2002
Type| Bronze sculpture
Dimensions| 260 cm (104 in)
Location| Milwaukee County Courthouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Coordinates| 43°2′29.759″N 87°55′23.847″W﻿ / ﻿43.04159972°N 87.92329083°W﻿ / 43.04159972; -87.92329083
Owner| Milwaukee County

The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial is a 2002 public sculpture by Gautam Pal located at the Milwaukee County Courthouse in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

## Description

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The 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m) sculpture depicts Indian civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi dressed in traditional attire and walking with a long staff. His head is bald, and his chest, shoulders, and legs are bare. He wears glasses and his gaze is directed toward the path he is walking. He wears sandals. The figure is oriented away from the Courthouse, appearing to walk eastward toward downtown and Lake Michigan.[1] The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial in Washington, D.C. includes a similar statue by Gautama Pal, also mounted on a red granite plinth.

The sculpture stands on a tapered red granite base on which bronze plaques are mounted on four sides to display texts. Placement between Courthouse doors labeled "TRUTH" and "JUSTICE" reinforces the message of the sculpture.

## Historical information

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The Wisconsin Coalition of Asian Indian Organizations (WCAIO) raised $12,000 for the sculpture and its installation. WCAIO represents 16 Indian American groups in the Milwaukee area. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations also provided support. Kumar Dhaliwal, retired dean of the Marquette University School of Dentistry, and his wife Darshan led the campaign to bring the sculpture to Milwaukee and donated $25,000. Dhaliwal told the India-West newspaper, "Mahatma Gandhi's messages are not only of importance to prevent violence in the world, but also domestic violence and violence in the streets."[1]

Milwaukee County accepted the offer to donate the sculpture and initially proposed ten possible sites. The Indian American community selected the site at MacArthur Square because "it's a beautiful, serene setting."[1]

The sculpture was unveiled on October 5, 2002, and the dedication event included a peace march, speeches by Wisconsin elected officials and Indian Ambassador Lalit Mansingh, and singing of bhajans. According to the India-West Newspaper, 850 people attended the dedication.

The sculpture is a gathering place for the local Indian American community and for peace activists holding vigils.[2]

## See also

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* List of artistic depictions of Mahatma Gandhi

## References

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1. ^ a b c Swapan, Ashfaque (October 14, 2002). "Mahatma Gandhi Statue Unveiled in Milwaukee". India-West Newspaper. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved August 5, 2012.
2. ^ "Students for Bhopal". Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved August 5, 2012.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Life events
and movements|

* Indian Ambulance Corps
* Tolstoy Farm
* Bardoli Satyagraha
* Champaran Satyagraha
* Kheda Satyagraha
* Indian independence movement
* Non-cooperation movement
* Chauri Chaura incident
* Purna Swaraj
* flag
* Salt March
* Dharasana Satyagraha
* Vaikom Satyagraha
* Aundh Experiment
* Gandhi–Irwin Pact
* Second Round Table Conference
* Padayatra
* Poona Pact
* Natal Indian Congress
* Quit India
* speech
* Gujarat Vidyapith University
* Harijan Sevak Sangh
* India ashrams (Kochrab
* Sabarmati
* Sodepur Khadi
* Sevagram)
* List of fasts
* Assassination

Philosophy|

* Practices and beliefs
* Composite nationalism
* Gandhism
* Economics
* trusteeship
* Education
* Sarvodaya
* Satyagraha
* Swadeshi
* Swaraj
* Eleven vows
* Gandhi cap

Publications|

* Harijan
* Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule)
* Indian Opinion
* The Story of My Experiments with Truth
* Mangal Prabhat
* Young India
* Seven Social Sins
* Navajivan Trust
* Gandhi Heritage Portal

Influences|

* "A Letter to a Hindu"
* Ahimsa (nonviolence)
* Bhagavad Gita
* Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience (essay))
* Civil disobedience
* Fasting
* Hinduism
* Khadi
* John Ruskin
* Parsee Rustomjee
* Leo Tolstoy (The Kingdom of God Is Within You)
* The Masque of Anarchy
* Narmad
* Pacifism
* Sermon on the Mount
* Shravan
* Shrimad Rajchandra
* Henry Stephens Salt
* Tirukkuṛaḷ
* Unto This Last
* Gandhi's translation
* "Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram"
* "Ekla Chalo Re"
* "Hari Tuma Haro"
* "Vaishnava Jana To"
* Vegetarianism

Associates|

* Swami Anand
* C. F. Andrews
* Jamnalal Bajaj
* Shankarlal Banker
* Sarla Behn
* Vinoba Bhave
* Brij Krishna Chandiwala
* Sudhakar Chaturvedi
* Jugatram Dave
* Mahadev Desai
* Dada Dharmadhikari
* Kanu Gandhi
* Shiv Prasad Gupta
* Umar Hajee Ahmed Jhaveri
* J. C. Kumarappa
* Hermann Kallenbach
* Abdul Ghaffar Khan
* Acharya Kripalani
* Mirabehn
* Mohanlal Pandya
* Vallabhbhai Patel
* Narhari Parikh
* Mithuben Petit
* Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
* Bibi Amtus Salam
* Sonja Schlesin
* Anugrah Narayan Sinha
* Sri Krishna Sinha
* Rettamalai Srinivasan
* V. A. Sundaram
* Abbas Tyabji
* Ravishankar Vyas
* Kishorlal Mashruwala

Legacy|

* Artistic depictions
* Gandhigiri
* Gandhi Peace Award
* Gandhi Peace Foundation
* Gandhi Peace Prize
* Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith
* Indian currency (Gandhi Series, Gandhi New Series, Indian rupee)
* Indian 10 Rupee postage stamp

Family|

* Karamchand Gandhi (father)
* Kasturba (wife)
* Harilal (son)
* Manilal (son)
* Ramdas (son)
* Devdas (son)
* Maganlal (cousin)
* Samaldas (nephew)
* Arun (grandson)
* Ela (granddaughter)
* Rajmohan (grandson)
* Gopalkrishna (grandson)
* Ramchandra (grandson)
* Kanu (grandson)
* Kanu (grandnephew)
* Tushar (great-grandson)
* Leela (great-granddaughter)

Influenced|

* 14th Dalai Lama
* Aung San Suu Kyi
* Abhay Bang
* Abdul Ghaffar Khan
* Brajkishore Prasad
* C. Rajagopalachari
* Eknath Easwaran
* Draupadi Murmu
* François Bayrou
* Gopaldas Ambaidas Desai
* Govind Vallabh Pant
* Ho Chi Minh
* James Bevel
* James Lawson
* Jawaharlal Nehru
* Joan Bondurant
* Lal Bahadur Shastri
* Lanza del Vasto
* Maulana Azad
* Martin Luther King Jr.
* Maria Lacerda de Moura
* Mehdi Bazargan
* Morarji Desai
* Narendra Modi
* Nelson Mandela
* Rajendra Prasad
* Ramjee Singh
* Steve Biko
* Sane Guruji
* Vinoba Bhave
* Vallabhbhai Patel

Memorials|

| Statues|

* Ghana
* India
* Patna
* National Salt Satyagraha Memorial
* New Delhi
* South Africa
* Johannesburg
* Pietermaritzburg
* UK
* Parliament Square
* Tavistock Square
* U.S.
* Davis
* Denver
* Houston
* Milwaukee
* New York
* San Francisco
* San Jose
* Washington, D.C.

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Observances|

* Gandhi Jayanti
* International Day of Non-Violence
* Martyrs' Day
* Season for Nonviolence

Other|

* Aga Khan Palace
* Gandhi Bhawan
* Gandhi Mandapam
* Gandhi Market
* Bookstores
* Gandhi Promenade
* Gandhi Smriti
* Gandhi Memorial
* Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai
* Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya
* Gandhi Teerth
* Gandhi Temple, Bhatara
* Kaba Gandhi No Delo
* Kirti Mandir
* Mahatma Gandhi College
* Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park
* Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Centre, Matale
* Mani Bhavan
* Mohandas Gandhi High School
* National Gandhi Museum
* Raj Ghat
* Roads named after Gandhi
* Sabarmati Ashram
* Satyagraha House

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Public art in Milwaukee

Downtown|

* The Victorious Charge
* Family
* The Calling
* Wisconsin Workers Memorial
* Wind Leaves
* Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil
* The Great Double
* Woodland Indian and Whistling Swans
* Solomon Juneau
* Leif, the Discoverer
* Letter Carriers' Monument
* Argo
* Bronze Fonz
* Walkways Through the Wall
* Abraham Lincoln
* George Washington
* Referee
* Immigrant Mother
* King Gambrinus
* RiverSculpture!
* Gertie the Duck
* General Douglas MacArthur
* The Spirit of Polonia
* World War I Memorial Flagpole
* Pedestrian Drama
* Midsummer Carnival Shaft
* Acqua Grylli
* Laureate
* Diana
* Trigon
* Pere Jacques Marquette
* Spanish–American War Soldier
* Ruins X
* Ex Stasis
* City Yard
* Mahatma Gandhi Memorial
* Peter John
* A Beam of Sun to Shake the Sky
* Rainbow Machine
* Topiary Lucere
* Dancing Through Life
* Mother Teresa Monument
* Jacques Marquette
* You Rise Above the World
* The Last Alarm
* John Plankinton

North Side|

* Celebrating the Arts
* Christian Wahl
* Elk
* On Watch
* Pattern
* Lapham Memorial
* Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
* Music
* Fishing
* Spirit of the Firefighter
* Dauntless Guardian
* Buildings 1992
* Gear 23
* All in the Air at Once
* First Flight
* Sea of the Ear
* Kindred Ties

East Side|

* Cleopatra's Wedge
* Float
* Polyphony
* Boy with Goose
* Eight Stone Lions
* Three Bronze Discs
* Holocaust Memorial
* Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology
* Blue Dress Park
* Sentinels
* Hermes
* Milwaukee
* Eclipse
* 'X' Intertwining
* Compass
* Erastus B. Wolcott
* Sharing the Load
* Robert Burns
* Near Here
* Compass
* Walk Like a River
* Spillover II
* Tip
* Jantar-Mantar
* Cass Street Park
* Brady Street Beasts
* Connect
* Fairies Candles

South Side|

* Menomonee
* Count Casimir Pulaski
* Spirit of Commerce
* Bay View Series
* A Place to Sit
* Stratiformis
* The Hill Climber
* Deflected Jets
* Angel in a Cage
* R. D. Whitehead Monument
* Memorial for Belle Austin Jacobs
* T. A. Chapman Memorial
* Nature Belle
* Oops, Missed
* Space Game
* Engine Company No. 10
* William A. Starke Memorial
* Steel Reborn
* Red Flower Rising
* Equestrian statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko
* Patrick Cudahy Memorial
* SOARING
* Two Opposites Reaching Up Toward the Peak of Progress
* Edge Elements
* Ribbons VI
* Bridge
* Stone Bracelet
* Untitled
* Quartet
* Tending the Fire
* Bird and Fish
* The Sower
* The Reaper
* Giving Gifts
* Watertower

West Side|

* Henry Bergh
* Goethe–Schiller Monument
* Chrysalis
* The Ideal Scout
* Uptown Triangles
* Tree of Life
* Magic Grove
* Steuben Monument
* Kneeling Camels
* Teamwork
* Aaron Monument
* Yount Monument
* Selig Monument
* Uecker Monument
* Fire and Water
* Vliet Street Commons
* Miller Valley Veterans Monument
* Children of the West End

Lynden Sculpture Garden|

* Sinai
* Wandering Rocks
* Sea Form (Atlantic)
* Sky Fence
* Floating Sculpture No. 3
* Mo, Ni, Que
* Trio
* Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9
* Way Four
* Compound Junior
* Salem No. 7
* Bremen Town Musicians
* Ancestor
* Queen of Sheba
* Rhythm in Space
* Peristyle, Three Lines
* Orizzontale
* Embrace
* Ursa Major
* Three Graces
* Large Torso, Arch
* Double Up
* Upstart
* The Lovers (di Suvero)
* Poland
* Axeltree
* Orbits
* Ritual II
* Hara
* Olympus
* The Lovers (Daen)
* Tensione No. 2
* The Source
* Rainbow
* Unfolding
* Vegetative Sculpture I
* Round About
* Lodgepole
* Twist for Max
* Bench-Stone
* Windfall
* Knife Tree
* Conversations with Magic Stones, Figure Three
* Conversations with Magic Stones (Magic Stone Three)
* Kumo
* Untitled
* Arch
* Epicenter
* Epicenter II
* III Columns
* Flight
* Pin Oak I

Mobile projects|

* Overpass Light Brigade

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