''The Day the Wall Came Down'' are two sculptures by

Veryl Goodnight Veryl Goodnight (born January 26, 1947) is a sculptor and since 2006 has been living in Mancos, Colorado. She is known for her equine sculpture - in particular a realistic depiction of horses, often in an American West context.Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. It depicts five horses leaping over actual pieces of the broken wall. There are two copies of the sculpture. One, sculpted in 1996, was initially installed at Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta, Georgia for the

1996 Olympic Games The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

. It was moved in 1997 and is now exhibited on the grounds of the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library in

College Station, Texas College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, Brazos County, Texas, situated in East-Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley, towards the eastern edge of the region known as the Texas Triangle. It is northwest of Houston and east-n ...

. The second, finished in 1998, was given as a gift from the United States to Germany, and is located at Clayallee near the

Allied Museum The Allied Museum (german: AlliiertenMuseum) is a museum in Berlin. It documents the political history and the military commitments and roles of the Western Allies ( US, France and Britain) in Germany – particularly Berlin – between 1945 a ...

in the former American sector of Berlin. Each sculpture weighs approximately seven tons and measures long by wide by high.Kadash-Swan, Kathy. "Freedom Horses", ''Western Horseman'', 1999; January issue: 100-106.

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