Alan LeQuire

LeQuire also created a large bronze relief for the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville dedicated to the Women's Rights Movement and commemorating passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920—Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, thus making it part of the U.S. Constitution.

Alan LeQuire (born 1955) is an American sculptor from Nashville, Tennessee.

Many of his sculptures are installed in the city.

Alan LeQuire was born in 1955.

His father, Virgil, was a physician and researcher on the faculty of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

His mother, Louise, was a painter, art teacher, and writer.

The young LeQuire showed an early interest in sculpture.

While an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, he studied independently under professor of sculpture Puryear Mims and Middle Tennessee State University sculptor Jim Gibson.

He spent his senior year in France, studied art history, and earned a degree in English.

After a year in Rome learning bronze casting as an assistant to New York City artist Milton Hebald, LeQuire entered the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.

LeQuire specializes in work of great scale, usually large public commissions.

His most famous work is the replica of Phidias' Athena Parthenos that stands in the naos of the full-scale reconstruction of the Acropolis Parthenon in Nashville's Centennial Park.

This statue, cast in a composite of gypsum and fiberglass on a steel and aluminum armature, is currently the largest piece of indoor sculpture in the Western World, standing almost 42 feet (13 m) tall.

LeQuire received the commission for the work in 1982, and it was unveiled in 1990 in a stark, white finish.

LeQuire was a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellow in 1986, and received a Tennessee Governor's Citation in 1987.

In 1990 he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Design Award for Athena Parthenos.

In 1997 LeQuire created a sculptural group of life-size portraits of Tennessee women's suffrage activists Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, Anne Dallas Dudley, and Lizzie Crozier French.

The sculpture is on display in Market Square in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee and is known as the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial.

In 2002, LeQuire oversaw a polychroming and gilding process that brought the statue to an appearance close to what ancient Greek visitors may have seen at the original Parthenon.

Another large-scale work is Musica, a bronze statue grouping unveiled in 2003 that sits in a grassy knoll at the center of Buddy Killen Circle, a roundabout where Division Street meets 17th Avenue South in the Music Row area of Nashville.

Musica is over 40 ft tall, and consists of nine colossal nude figures, male and female, dancing in a circle.

It is the largest bronze figure group in the United States.

LeQuire is also a portrait sculptor.

Other works by LeQuire include: