page_title: Galveston, Texas
section_title: Sculpture
hierarchical_section_title: Galveston, Texas / Arts and culture / Artist Residency & artist housing / Sculpture
caption_attribution_description: English: .Henry Rosenberg contributed this statue to the citizens of Galveston. It was a memorial to the Heroes of the Texas Revolution. A dedication ceremony on San Jacinto Day, April 21st, 1900 and featured a parade and ceremonies attended by Governer Joseph D. Sayers. The monument was created by Italian sculptor Louis Amateis. It is made of bronze and granite and features the female form of Victory holding a laurel wreath in an outstretched arm pointing to the San Jacinto Battleground across the bay, where Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna winning independence for the Republic of Texas.
context_page_description: Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of 209.3 square miles, with a population of 47,743 in 2010, is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county. It is also within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area at its southern end on the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
  Galveston, or Galvez' town, was named after the Spanish military and political leader in the 18th century: Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez, who was born in Macharaviaya, Málaga, in the Kingdom of Spain. Galveston's first European settlements on the Galveston Island were built around 1816 by French pirate Louis-Michel Aury to help the fledgling Republic of Mexico fight for independence from Spain, along with other colonies in the Western Hemisphere of the Americas in Central and South America in the 1810s and 1820s. The Port of Galveston was established in 1825 by the Congress of Mexico following its independence from Spain.
context_section_description: Notable statues and sculptures in Galveston include:
  1900 Storm Memorial, by David W. Moore
  Birth, by Arthur Williams
  Dignified Resignation by Louis Amateis at the Galveston County Courthouse.  With his back turned to the US flag while carrying a Confederate flag, it is the only memorial in Texas to feature a Confederate sailor.
  Dolphins by David W. Moore
  High Tide, by Charles Parks
  Jack Johnson, by Adrienne Isom
  Pink Dolphin Monument, by Joe Joe Orangias
  Texas Heroes Monument, by Louis Amateis
caption: Texas Heroes Monument. In the center of Broadway Blvd, at 25th street
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