El Cid Campeador (sculpture)

El Cid Campeador is an outdoor equestrian statue depicting the 11th-century Spanish knight and warlord El Cid by artist Anna Hyatt Huntington, architect William Templeton Johnson, and the foundry General Bronze Company, installed at Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama in San Diego, California. The bronze sculpture was created in 1927 and dedicated on July 5, 1930.

Artist

• Anna Hyatt Huntington (sculptor)
• William Templeton Johnson (architect)

Year1927 (1927)

TypeSculpture

MediumSculpture: bronze
Base: concrete or Indiana limestone

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El Cid Campeador
The statue in 2006
Artist	Anna Hyatt Huntington (sculptor) William Templeton Johnson (architect)
Year	1927 (1927)
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Sculpture: bronze Base: concrete or Indiana limestone
Subject	El Cid
Condition	"Treatment needed" (1994)
Location	San Diego, California, U.S. 32°43′51″N 117°09′02″W

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The statue measures approximately 11 ft × 9 ft × 7 ft (3.4 m × 2.7 m × 2.1 m), with a 16 ft (4.9 m) diameter, and its concrete or Indiana limestone base measures approximately 11 ft × 14 ft × 8 ft (3.4 m × 4.3 m × 2.4 m). It was surveyed and deemed "treatment needed" by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in March 1994.^[1]

Copies of Huntington's statue exist in other cities, including Buenos Aires, New York City, San Francisco, Seville, and Valencia.^[2] The New York cast is on the grounds of the Hispanic Society of America on Audubon Terrace in Manhattan. Anna Hyatt Huntington was the wife of Archer M. Huntington, the society's founder.