Aspiration and Literature Gilded Pegasus Statue at Twilight in Washington DC | WASHINGTON — Twilight deepens around James Earle Fraser's Aspiration and Literature beside Arlington Memorial Bridge on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., a bridge lamp unlit at left, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. The gilded group, also called Arts of War and Peace, shows a winged horse with a standing figure who holds an open book. A stringless bow nearby alludes to the test of manhood accomplished by Odysseus. Fraser's name and the date 1949 are cast into the gilded base. Italian craftsmen cast the pair of groups in

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