Cemetery Monuments
Like many other sculptors of his era, Polasek created several cemetery memorials. Notable among those are The Pilgrim and The Mother (1927), both located in the Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago, and the Pilgrim at the Eternal Gate in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. Pictures of all three are featured in both biographies listed in the sources section.
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