Artwork Files

An Artwork File gathers everything we can verify about one artwork: who made it, when and where, the artist’s own photos, local news, official records, and whether it is still there. Every fact links to its source and carries a label from How We Verify Art.

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78 of these 1165 works are gone. The files show how and when, from dated sources.

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The Family of Man in Calgary: a ring of very tall, thin aluminium human figures with outstretched arms standing on a lawn among downtown office towers.

The Family of Man

Mario Armengol · Calgary, Canada · 6 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

CBC reports the circle was an accident: the figures came in crates without instructions and city staff chose the layout.

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All 15 moai standing in a row on the restored Ahu Tongariki platform under a blue sky with white clouds, one wearing a red stone topknot.

Rapa Nui, Chile · 10 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

According to Imagina Rapa Nui, the restoration began with a 1988 TV remark that a crane could stand the moai up again.

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Many small cement men in suits by Isaac Cordal stand in a flooded patch of pavement in Berlin, only their heads and shoulders above the water, packed together as if in a meeting.

Electoral Campaign

Isaac Cordal · Berlin, Germany · 8 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

The artist’s own Flickr photo calls it “electoral campaign”; the climate title came later from social media.

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Life-size plaster figures draped like ghosts sit in the wooden pews of St. George’s Church in Luková, Czech Republic, in front of a peeling blue patterned wall.

Jakub Hadrava · Luková, Czech Republic · 8 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Visits rose from 712 in 2013 to 15,600 in 2020, and visitors’ donations helped fund the church’s repair.

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Hundreds of small white maneki-neko lucky cats with red collars packed together on the shelves at Gotokuji Temple in Tokyo.

Lucky cats of Gotokuji

Gotokuji, Setagaya · Tokyo, Japan · 8 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

A Tokyu article reports about 10,000 cats in the offering hall, each bought at the temple and brought back after a wish came true.

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A painted man pours tea from a giant teapot into cups between real windows at 30 Temple Street, Singapore

Chinatown Market

Yip Yew Chong · Singapore · 5 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Yip says he painted the three storeys over “24 very wet days” in November 2021.

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A large tap appears to float in midair above a fountain, pouring a column of water into a tiled basin

El Puerto de Santa María, Spain · 4 confirming sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

A pipe hidden inside the falling water holds the tap up and carries the water to its spout.

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A giant stainless-steel fork stands upright in Lake Geneva at Vevey, with mountains behind

Jean-Pierre Zaugg · Vevey, Switzerland · 3 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

A 1996 court ruling ordered the fork out of the lake; it came back in 2007 and has stayed.

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A giant wooden clothespin grips the top of a grassy mound in a park in Chaudfontaine

Mehmet Ali Uysal · Chaudfontaine, Belgium · 4 independent sources

Status checked 13 Nov 2026

A photographer’s caption says the six-metre clothespin was replaced in 2020 by a parasol.

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A woman's face like cracked wood, crowned with olive branches, painted on an apartment block in Cerignola

Mother Nature mural

Sock Wild Sketch & Tetalov · Cerignola, Italy · 3 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

The wall carries its own dedication: “Per tutte le madri del mondo…”, for all the mothers of the world.

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FATE's mural in Lugar do Sobral: a young woman carries a giant acorn on a golden chain, the village chapel on top

Sobral, the product of its history

FATE · Ferreira do Zêzere, Portugal · 3 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

The parish council’s own report explains each symbol, from the acorn and the chapel to the golden chain and the instruments.

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Before and after: a plain blue downpipe on a pale blue brick wall, then Tom Bob's brown anteater painted around it so the pipe becomes its long snout, with black ants painted on the sidewalk.

Tom Bob · 2018 · New York, USA · 4 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

Viewing NYC: a drainpipe at the Bushwick Collective became a 3D anteater, with ants painted on the sidewalk.

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Hippo's Yawn near Hyden, Western Australia: a huge rounded granite boulder with a deep curved hollow underneath, shaped like a hippo's wide-open mouth, above a dry path of stones.

Natural rock formation · Hyden, Australia · 5 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

Trails WA puts the mouth of the shallow cave at about 13 metres; the Wave Rock site says the tor was once part of the larger outcrop.

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Bordalo II's giant red squirrel made from scrap metal and other waste on the side of a corner building in Dublin, holding a pale nut above a row of posters.

Bordalo II · 2017 · Dublin, Ireland · 8 independent sources

Status checked 12 Nov 2026

Built from Dublin scrap on The Workshop Gastro Pub in April 2017; 98FM reported in June 2019 that it was coming down.

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Justin Bateman's portrait of George Washington laid out on the ground in sorted pebbles and stones.

George Washingstone

Justin Bateman · 2021 · 3 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

Bateman’s own site lists the pebble portrait as ‘George Washingstone’ 2021; his pebble works are temporary.

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Martin Debenham's stainless-steel wire mermaid sits on a boulder beside a pond, her long wire tail stretching out across a wooden deck.

Martin Debenham · 3 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

My Modern Met shows the stainless steel wire mermaid on a rock by a lily pond; one site calls it Mermaid 3.

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A tall, headless driftwood figure by Nagato Iwasaki, made of weathered tan branches, stands on the grass at the edge of a lake with forested hills behind.

Nagato Iwasaki · Japan · 4 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

Iwasaki told Creative Boom he joins the driftwood with wooden stakes and no glue; the figures stand about 180 cm tall.

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Thomas Dambo's giant wooden troll Long Leif, built from shingle-like pieces of recycled wood, stands in a forest clearing with a small visitor at his feet

Thomas Dambo · 2024 · Detroit Lakes, USA · 6 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

MPR News called the 36-foot recycled-wood troll the largest of Dambo’s nearly 140 trolls; a 2026 AP report gives 13 meters.

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Marc Quinn's giant white bronze baby Planet lying above the lawn of The Meadow at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, in September 2013

Marc Quinn · 2008 · Singapore · 6 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

Gardens by the Bay says the seven-tonne bronze baby rests on its right hand, so it seems to float; it was first shown at Chatsworth in 2008.

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Two monumental steel horse heads beside the canal at The Helix in Falkirk.

Andy Scott · Falkirk, Scotland · 2013 · 4 confirming sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

Duke looks down; Baron lifts his muzzle. Their steel skin hides an engineering story, from motorway glare to railway fixings.

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The Bügeleisenhaus in Hattingen, Germany: a black and white half-timbered house seen from its narrow south end

Bügeleisenhaus

Built for Wilhelm Elling · 1611 · Hattingen, Germany · 4 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

German Wikipedia gives the exact taper: 8.00 m wide on the north side, only 2.57 m at the south end.

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The narrow triangular tip of Atlanta's Flatiron Building, a pale stone office building, at a street corner with taller towers behind

Flatiron Building

Bradford L. Gilbert · 1897 · Atlanta, USA · 3 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

Built in 1897 as the English-American Building, Bradford Gilbert’s 11-story wedge is described in its National Register nomination as Atlanta’s oldest standing skyscraper and predates NYC’s Flatiron.

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The razor-thin pointed end of the Flat Iron Building in Stockholm beside wide railway tracks, photographed while under construction

Flat Iron Building

Rosenbergs Arkitekter · 2009 · Stockholm, Sweden · 3 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

Swedish Wikipedia says the Stockholm building was meant to recall New York’s Flatiron Building, on a triangular plot beside the railway.

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Two very slender residential towers, Highcliff and The Summit, rising high above apartment blocks in front of a green hillside in Hong Kong

Highcliff and The Summit

Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers · 2003 · Hong Kong · 4 independent sources

Last checked 12 Nov 2026

In its Sky High exhibition, The Skyscraper Museum described Highcliff (828 feet, 1:20 slenderness ratio) as the world’s most slender residential skyscraper.

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How a file is made

Start from a photoEvery file begins with a work we have published on World Art Utopia or Street Art Utopia.
Only confirmed worksWe make a file only when at least three independent sources confirm the work.
Local sources firstLocal news in the local language, city and festival records, the artist’s own posts and videos, and archived copies of news links.
Is it still there?The newest dated photo, satellite and Street View history, and official records decide the status. “Still there” always has a date.
Checked before it goes upEvery quote, date and link is checked against its source before a file is published.

Artwork Files · last updated 13 November 2026 · Certainty labels follow How We Verify Art.