by jfawcett | Feb 17, 2014
The St. Louis Award was established in 1931 to annually honor the person making the most outstanding contribution to the St. Louis area. The nine-foot, Cor-ten sculpture is a stylized pine tree on a concrete pedestal surrounded by a grove of living trees, one for each...
by jfawcett | Feb 17, 2014
In 1893, French was a founding member of the National Sculpture Society, and he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. French also became a member of the National Academy of Design (1901), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the...
by jfawcett | Feb 17, 2014
This nineteen-foot-tall sculpture of an African elephant rearing up was installed beneath a honey locust tree trimmed to resemble an acacia (a tree native to the African Savannah), so that it seems to be reaching for a branch. Many details were painstakingly included,...
by jfawcett | Feb 14, 2014
One of a series of stainless steel trees that Paine executed for city parks, Placebo’s placement is as important to its meaning as its form and title. Standing nearly sixty feet tall, the tree is composed of twenty-four different size stainless steel pipes and...
by jfawcett | Feb 14, 2014
The symbolic statue is the companion to Daniel Chester French’s Sculpture. The pieces were originally produced in plaster. The artists were commissioned to reproduce them in marble to occupy permanently the same location as they had during the 1904 World’s...
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