Q: Who designed the bull? A: Italian American artist Arturo Di Modica. Q: Who cast the bull? A: The bull was cast in Brooklyn by the Bedi-Makky Art Foundry. Q: How big is the bull? A: Roughly 5 meters or 16 feet from the nose to the tail. Q: How much does the bull weigh? A: 3 ½ tons = 7000 pounds or 3181 kg. Q: What is the bull made of? A: Bronze
Charging Bull, which is sometimes referred to as the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull, is a bronze sculpture that stands in Bowling Green in the Financial District in Manhattan, New York City. The sculpture was created by Sicilian artist Arturo Di Modica.
Arturo Di Modica (born January 26, 1941) is an Italian-American artist, born in Vittoria, Sicily, best known for his sculpture Charging Bull (also known as the Wall Street Bull), which he installed without permission in front of the New York Stock Exchange in December 1989. The work cost US$360,000 of the artist's own money.
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Wall Street bull artist knows BS when he sees it. The bull is art, Arturo Di Modica said of his bronze behemoth. The girl is, well, bull. “That is not a symbol! That’s an advertising trick,” the 76-year-old Sicilian immigrant said, clutching his heart.
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Issued in 1950s. Nice vingette of smelting and foundry plants with an anvil in the background.
Arturo worked on the now world-famous Charging Bull for over two years at his studio on Crosby Street in the Soho district of Manhattan. It was his most ambitious and massive work of sculpture to date, so large that the Bull had to be cast in separate bronze pieces and then laboriously welded together and hand finished.
American Car and Foundry Motors Company Stock Certificate. Dated Dec 28, 1942, for 26 shares, incorporated under the Laws of the State of Delaware. Issued and punch cancelled. Add to the Dow Jones Industrial Average July 1, 1901.
As di Modica was solving the engineering feat of his monumental Wall Street Charging Bull figure, he made a series of ten maquette-size bulls to work out design, massing and foundry issues. The example offered here is from this early series and was purchased from di Modica in 1988 by his friend and fellow sculptor Leon Hariton (New York, 1920-2015).