Jimi Hendrix Statue
Life-size bronze figure of a rock guitarist mid-performance, cast for a private corporate art collection.
This guide to the Jimi Hendrix Statue on Capitol Hill in Seattle starts with a September morning when someone climbed up and sprayed the bronze guitarist red, on the exact anniversary of Hendrix's death in a London hotel room. It traces the statue back to 1997 and sculptor Daryl Smith, and to a local businessman named Michael Malone, who turned this stretch of sidewalk into his own private collection of rock icons cast in bronze, including Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley nearby. Hendrix grew up a few miles away in the Central District and went to Garfield High School before the guitar took him elsewhere.
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