page_title: Stegosaurus in popular culture
section_title: Sculpture
hierarchical_section_title: Stegosaurus in popular culture / Sculpture
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Model stegozaura naturalnej wielkości, w Parku Jurajskim w Bałtowie (województwo świętokrzyskie) English: Model of stegosaurus in Bałtów Jurassic Park, Bałtów, Poland
context_page_description: Stegosaurus is one of the most recognizable types among cultural depictions of dinosaurs. It has been depicted on film, in cartoons, comics, as children's toys, as sculpture, and even was declared the state dinosaur of Colorado in 1982. Stegosaurus is a subject for inclusion in dinosaur toy and scale model lines, such as the Carnegie Collection.
  As late as the 1970's, Stegosaurus, along with other dinosaurs, was depicted in fiction as a slow-moving, dim-witted creature. The "dinosaur renaissance" changed the prevailing image of dinosaurs as sluggish and cold-blooded and this reevaluation has been reflected in popular media.
context_section_description: Sculptor Jim Gary created several, almost-life-sized versions of Stegosaurus. Beginning in the 1960s, one always was displayed among his traveling exhibition, Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs, and they are frequently used as an illustration of his work in books and articles about the artist because of their distinctive characteristics. One of these was displayed for months before the electrical engineering research facility at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during a 2005 campus-wide display of the exhibition, which was hosted by Belk College, and became a mascot of sorts to students studying in nearby buildings. Howard the Duck walked under a Jim Gary Stegosaurus when a museum display of Gary's work was used as a set for the 1986 film.
  In 1973 Alexander Calder also created a huge sculpture called, Stegosaurus, that was more abstract than Gary's. It stands 50 feet tall in Hartford, Connecticut.
caption: Model Stegosaurus, Bałtów Jurassic Park, Poland.
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