Johnny Cash statue to be unveiled at US Capitol
nme.comJohnny Cash is set to be unveiled at the US Capitol later this year.The late music icon is set to be honoured with the sculpture, which will be erected in Statuary Hall next month.Designed and created by artist Kevin Kresse, the statue will be made of bronze and stand eight feet tall.
It will be unveiled on September 24 in Emancipation Hall – becoming part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.News of the forthcoming installation was announced yesterday (August 1) by House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
It was also confirmed that the statue of Cash would mark the first time that a professional musician has received a statue at the capitol.The decision to have the statue made comes after the Arkansas state legislature passed a bill back in 2019 – stating that existing statues of the state’s 18th governor James P.
Clarke and 19th-century lawyer Uriah Rose would be replaced.It was then decided that one of the replacements would be the ‘I Walk The Line’ singer, songwriter and guitarist, and the other would be civil rights leader Daisy Bates.
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