Monument to Joe Louis
Modern Monument · Detroit, Michigan
A twenty-four-foot bronze arm ending in a clenched fist, suspended on cables from a pyramidal frame at the foot of Woodward Avenue. Robert Graham made it in 1986 for Sports Illustrated as a memorial to the Detroit heavyweight who beat Max Schmeling in 1938, and the city has called it The Fist ever since.
Jefferson Avenue at Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 48226, United States
Outdoors in public space, visible at all hours. Floodlit after dark.
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