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en-wikipedia-org-8254		Sculpture of the United States - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3783	297	63	The history of sculpture in the United States begins in the 1600s "with the modest efforts of craftsmen who adorned gravestones, Bible boxes, and various utilitarian objects with simple low-relief decorations."[1] American sculpture in its many forms, genres and guises has continuously contributed to the cultural landscape of world art into the 21st century. One of these specific applications, the carving of wooden figureheads for ships, started in the Americas as early as 1750[2] and a century later helped launch the careers of Samuel McIntyre and the country's first famous sculptor, William Rush (1756–1833) of Philadelphia.[3] The tradition begun then continues today in the folk sculpture style known as Chainsaw carving. As the century closed, the pace of monument-building quickened in the great cities of the East, especially those erected to memorialize the Civil War. Several outstanding sculptors emerged, most of them trained in the beaux-arts academies of Paris.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8254.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8254.txt