This seems like a good time to show you yet another sculpture of a human figure, after my posts about the Civil War and WWII memorials in Rhode Island with their beautiful sculptures. This statue is more local - it is in a nearby town. It is in memory of deceased members of a fire department. I first saw it when it was installed in the early 1980's. I remember being surprised at this the first time I saw it. The proportions of the fireman just seemed strange. I did wonder about the people who commissioned this sculpture. I wonder if the artist created a maquette, which is a scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture, which everyone could see before giving the go ahead in creating the full sized statue.
2 comments:
A lovely tribute, but his coat is so long and his boots look so heavy, how can he run? I think of firemen wearing overall pants and much shorter jackets so that can crawl or climb out windows or up the ladders.
Joan
I noticed how big his hands are! This piece is definitely not to scale...betsey
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