
Virile men wear masks.
Detail of Copper Man (officially the Courthouse Plaza Miners’ Monument) in Bisbee, Arizona, by sculptor Raymond Philips Sanderson. The sculpture
is composed of concrete clad in molten copper, completed in 1935.
A plaque on the sculpture’s pedestal reads “Dedicated to those virile men the copper miners, whose contributions to the development of the wealth and lore of the State of Arizona has been magnificent.”












