Explore the Indiana about the Historical information of this artwork, Coal Miner (statue).
In 1965 the Indiana General Assembly appropriated funds to commission a copy of the sculpture to memorialize Hoosier coal miners who had been killed on the job. The Indiana statue was dedicated in 1967. As with the Illinois sculpture, it is a public artwork. Indiana's statue of The  Coal Miner is owned and administered by the State of Indiana, Department of Administration.Szaton's wife donated the full-scale plaster sculpture to the Tinley Park Historical Society in 1986.Reproductions of small-scale versions of the monument have been mass-produced; over 200 have been given as gifts by the coal industry over the years.
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