Harry Jerome | |
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Artist | Jack Harman |
Year | 1986 |
Type | Sculpture |
Medium | Bronze |
Subject | Harry Jerome |
Dimensions | 2.7 m (9 ft) |
Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
49°17′54″N 123°07′09″W / 49.29823°N 123.11911°W |
Harry Jerome is an outdoor 1986 bronze sculpture by Jack Harman of Canadian track and field runner Harry Jerome,[1][2] installed at Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia.[3]
The 9-foot (2.7 m)[4] statue commemorates Jerome's running career and depicts the sprinter with his "chest thrust forward into the finish tape".[1][5]
The sculpture was unveiled in 1988.[6] Someone placed an Iron Man helmet on the statue without permission in 2015; reports attributed the helmet to mischief or a guerrilla marketing campaign for the pending premiere of Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron.[4] The statue's plaque was stolen in 2016.[7] Toronto artist Moya Garrison-Msingwana's 2019 Google Doodle commemorating Jerome's birthday was "loosely inspired" by the statue.[8][9]