Tag: Bela Lyon Pratt

The classical statue representing art outside the Boston Public Library took on a punk look for a few days.

This work was created by Boston sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt, who was a teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Art. When his mentor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, could not complete the commissioned artwork for this area, Pratt was selected to create two statues representing Art and Science.

Here's a photo of a model for the statue from the Boston Public Library Collection. (Used under this creative commons license.) I wondered if those two lamps were ever part of the finished work and checked through photographs on file from the time the libary was completed. They never appear. 

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2012 Penny & Ed Cherubino

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