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Colbar Art — The Legacy of Ovidiu Colea
A non-commercial historical archive about Ovidiu Colea, his escape from communist Romania, his sculpture workshop, and the objects made there.
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- Readers of immigrant history, sculpture, and New York manufacturing
- Worth noticing
- The chronology includes a 65,000-sculpture Olympic commission and a U.S. Senate testimony source.
Field notes
The page organizes Colea's life around dated milestones, from his 1958 attempted escape and prison labor sentence to his 1978 arrival in the United States. It identifies Barrett-Colea's 1984 Olympic commission for 65,000 sculptures and describes later Statue of Liberty replica work, including a license from the Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation. The archive draws on Colea's 1997 Senate testimony, contemporary reporting, a patent, and factory-history sources, while noting that further archives and oral histories may refine the record.
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