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Missouri icon Harry Truman strides back into U.S. Capitol as long-awaited statue unveiled BY DANIEL DESROCHERS UPDATED SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 1:24 PM Link to article Former President Harry Truman liked to walk. He used a walking cane to keep track of his strides and would start walking around the Washington D.C., and later Independence, doing his best to keep a...

A Kansas City sculptor secures his legacy with Harry Truman statue at the U.S. Capitol KCUR | By Luke X. Martin,  Laura Spencer Published September 30, 2022 at 3:00 AM CDT Link to article Artist Tom Corbin was chosen for the job by a committee that included members of the Truman family. His statue of the 33rd president, who was from Independence,...

Statue of Harry Truman unveiled in U.S. Capitol Rotunda By Associated Press September 29, 2022 at 4:55 p.m. EDT Link to article   WASHINGTON D.C. — Former President Harry S. Truman was remembered by Democratic and Republican leaders as one of the most consequential presidents in history during a ceremony Thursday unveiling a statue of Truman in the Rotunda of the...

Harry S. Truman Statue Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) was a U.S. senator from Missouri and served as president of the United States from 1945 to 1953. Link to AOC entry Missouri gave this statue of Truman to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 2022. Artist Tom Corbin (1954- ) took up modeling and bronze casting in his thirties and now sculpts, designs furniture and...

Arts News: Truman Returns to Washington By Bryan F. Le Beau, July 12, 2021  Marking the 75th anniversary of Harry Truman’s ascendency to the presidency and coinciding with the much-anticipated grand opening of the redesign of the Truman Library and Museum (both delayed a bit by the pandemic), Harry Truman will soon be joining several of his fellow presidents in...

Roo Sculpture by Artist Tom Corbin Settles Into New Home Story by: Patricia O’Dell, odellpa@umkc.edu Published: Apr 26, 2021 Students, faculty and staff welcome new Roo to campus UMKC students, faculty and staff welcomed the newest UMKC Roo to campus in the first public event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mahreen Ansari, UMKC Student Government Association president, introduced the...

KCUR | By Laura Spencer Published March 25, 2021 at 1:23 PM CDT Each state gets to honor two citizens with statues in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. In 2022, one ofMissouri’s contributions will be a statue of President Harry S. Truman. Artist and sculptor Tom Corbin on Thursday stood in his Kansas City, Kansas, studio, next to a clay bust...

Fox 4 News by: Matt Stewart, Travis Meier Posted: Mar 30, 2021 / 07:16 AM CDT / Updated: Mar 30, 2021 / 08:11 AM CDT KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A local artist is putting the finishing touches on a new statue that will soon stand inside the U.S. Capitol building. It honors former President Harry Truman. Kansas City, Kansas-based sculptor Tom Corbin has spent the...

Tom Corbin Continued: Famed KC sculptor shapes decades of creativity into a work of art By: Whitney Burke   November 25, 2020 Click here to read on Startland News website Tom Corbin, Corbin Bronze Like many in the entrepreneur community, nationally renowned sculptor and painter Tom Corbin didn’t truly embrace his calling until hitting a wall at his uninspiring day job. “I...

Molding a Life’s Passion: Tom Corbin Continued Written by Shannon E. Roesgen. Photos provided by Tom Corbin. Tom Corbin is a self-taught sculptor, painter, and furniture designer who embraces a “planned accident” philosophy when creating his works of art. In fact, one might say Corbin’s entire career as an artist has been a planned accident. Born in Dayton, Ohio, in...

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Corbin Bronze is proud to announce that the Truman Library Institute has awarded Tom Corbin the commission to sculpt a bronze monument of President Harry S. Truman. Installation will take place at the U.S. Capitol in the National Statuary Hall Collection, Washington D.C. Please enjoy the article below by Laura Spencer at KCUR, Kansas City's NPR station.