It is a commemorative sculpture dedicated to the sailors who, with their faith and perseverance, helped the discoverer of America successfully complete his epic journey.
The project was carried out by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an American sculptor who was a disciple of Rodin in Paris, where she studied, as well as in New York. The Whitney Museum, founded in 1931, is located there. The sculptor was named an "adopted daughter" of the city of Huelva.
It was inaugurated in 1929.
