page_title: Carl Milles
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Carl Milles / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: Triton Blowing on a Shell by Carl Milles at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.[1]
context_page_description: Carl Milles was a Swedish sculptor. He was married to artist Olga Milles and brother to Ruth Milles and half brother to the architect Evert Milles. Carl Milles sculpted the Gustaf Vasa statue at the Stockholm Nordic Museum, the Poseidon statue in Gothenburg, the Orpheus group outside the Stockholm Concert Hall, and the Fountain of Faith in Falls Church, Virginia. His home near Stockholm, Millesgården, became his resting place and is now a museum.
context_section_description: Aganippe Fountain, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1951-55 (at Brookgreen Gardens since 1982)
  Aviator Monument, Karlaplan, Stockholm, 1931
  Fountain of Faith, National Memorial Park cemetery, Falls Church, Virginia, 1939-52 
  Gustav Vasa Statue, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, 1905-07 (painted gypsum) and 1925 (painted oak)
  Folkung Fountain, Old Square, Linköping, 1924–27
  Louis De Geer, Old Square, Norrköping, 1945
  Sten Sture Monument, Uppsala, 1902–25
  Vision of Peace, City Hall, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1932–36
  Bronze doors, Finance Building, Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1938
  Diana Fountain, Matchstick Palace, Stockholm, 1927–28
  Europe and the Bull Fountain, Old Square, Halmstad, 1924–26
  Exterior sculpted decor of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, 1903–08
  God on the Rainbow, Nacka, 1995 (by Marshall Fredericks, on a 1946 model by Milles for the Headquarters of the United Nations)
  Greendale War Memorial for Veterans of All Wars, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1948
  Man and Nature, lobby of 1 Rockefeller Plaza, Rockefeller Center, New York City, 1937–41
  Man and Pegasus, Castle Park, Malmö, 1949
  Maritime Goddess, Helsingborg, 1921–23
  Meeting of the Waters, monumental fountain, St. Louis, Missouri, 1936–40
  Monument to Johannes Rudbeckius, Västerås, 1923
  Numerous works at Cranbrook Educational Community, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, including Mermaids & Tritons Fountain, 1930, Sven Hedin on a Camel, 1932, Jonah and the Whale Fountain, 1932, Orpheus Fountain, 1936.
  On a Sunday Morning, monumental fountain, Ingalls Mall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1939–41
  Orpheus Group, in front of Stockholm Concert Hall, 1926–36
  Playing Angels, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1950 (purchased by Fairmount Park Art Association in 1968; installed 1972)
  Poseidon Fountain, Götaplatsen, Gothenburg, 1925–31
  Saint Martin of Tours (William Volker Memorial Fountain), Kansas City, Missouri, 1950-55
  Sjöguden (Sea God), Skeppsbron, Stockholm, 1913
  Spirit of Transportation, Detroit Civic Center, Detroit, Michigan, 1952
  Sun Singer, Helgeandsholmen, Stockholm, 1926; replicas in Robert Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois, and National Memorial Gardens, Falls Church, Virginia
  Swedish Tercentenary Monument, Fort Christina, Wilmington, Delaware, 1937–38
  The Archer, in front of Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, 1919
  The Astronomer, 1939 New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, 1938-39 (plaster, destroyed at the Fair's end; later reproduced in smaller-scale bronze)
  The Four Ages of Economic Exchange, Stockholms Enskilda Bank head office, Stockholm, 1915
  The Hand of God, Eskilstuna, 1952-54
  Two Dancers, 1915, placed on Gothenburg's Götaplatsen in 1952
  Two plaques on WWJ Building, Detroit, Michigan, 1936
  Wall reliefs on Racine County Courthouse, Racine, Wisconsin, 1931
caption: Triton Blowing a Shell, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
exif: {}