Unicorn Spirit - St. Louis, Missouri
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BruceS
N 38° 36.809 W 090° 15.439
15S E 738800 N 4277454
Abstract bronze located at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WM7ZXC
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 12/31/2009
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The bronze abstract sculpture is described as a rising form symbolizing life both in a mythical sense being in the shape of of a Unicorn's horn and in a scientific sense being in the shape of a double helix of a DNA molecule, the basic building block of life. The abstract cutouts allude the the artwork of the wife of the donor and mother of the sculptor.
TITLE: Unicorn Spirit
ARTIST(S): John Edgar Goodman
DATE: 1984
MEDIUM: Bronze
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 64800009
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Missouri Botanical Garden
4344 Shaw Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
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