Newly married to Olga and just returned to Stockholm in 1906, Carl was engaged in numerous monumental sculpture projects, of which Gustav Vasa for the recently built Nordic Museum, Sten Sture for Uppsala, the group of Muses crowning the Royal Dramatic Theatre and entrance column Reliefs, Wings for the National Museum and the two granite Eagles for Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde are among the more prominent. Carl created a highly personal sculpture portrait of architect Ferdinand Boberg in Paris 1904.


In 1911 Carl invented sculptures of wood, bronze, granite and alabaster commissioned for Boberg's Church of Revelation in Saltsjöbadcn. Continuing their collaboration, Boberg designed a large rotunda to house Milles' sculptures at the legendary Baltic Exhibition of 1914.

Carl Milles was appointed professor in modelling at the Royal Academy of Art in 1920, combining the roles of educator and sculptor during the next three decades.

In 1925 his Susanna fountain was awarded the Grand Prix at the International Exposition in Paris. The fol­lowing year his monumental Europa Fountain in Halmstad, the Sun Singer and Industry Monument in Stockholm were all unveiled. Milles' amazing productivity continued in 1927-28, with the large retro­spective exhibition in London's National Gallery and the unveiling of his huge Folkkunga fountain in Linkoping and the Diana fountain in Stockholm.

Milles' last Swedish work of the decade was the Poseidon fountain in Gothcnburg, which was unveiled in 1930, just before Carl and Olga moved to Cranbrook Academy to take up residency.   During the next- quarter century Carl Milles created monumental public sculptures for many American and Swedish cities.

Sketches and full-scale replicas sculpted in plaster, carved in stone or cast in bronze -such varied works as the Jonah fountain (1931), the Peace Monument (1932-36) from S:t Paul, Stockholm's Orpheus fountain (1936), Man and Nature from Rockefeller Center in New York (1937-41), the Fountain of Faith (1938-52) in Falls Church, Virginia,Man and Pegasus (1949) from Des Moines, Iowa, Hand of God (1954) from Eskilstuna and the Fountain of the Muses (1955) for the Metropolitan Museum in New York all can be seen at Millesgarden.

More than a half century of creative work from two continents gathered together in a sculpture garden consummate the artist's vision.