January 05, 2006
Day at the Garden
Statue outside of Henry Shaw's home at the Missouri Botanical Garden
Posted by Tom at January 5, 2006 10:28 PM
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Love it! The blue sky, the house in the background and it almost looks like she's giving a thumbs up until you realize she has something in her hand. Hee Hee.
Posted by: maggie at January 6, 2006 12:06 PMCool pic! It's Henry Shaw though.
Posted by: Joe Frank at January 6, 2006 01:15 PMThe sculpture is called "Juno". I've often admired it on my jaunts to the garden. MoBot has a great history and descriptive listing of all the sculptures at the park conveniently listed for your pleasure: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/hort/sculpture/list.html
Also, here's a link to the same statue in the 1890s at the gardens: http://www.mobot.org/mobot/archives/image.asp?filename=GPN1982-0215.tif&returnto=/mobot/archives/results.asp