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  • Maestro (The Conductor)
    Maestro (The Conductor)
    Category: Memorial/Monument; Outdoor Sculpture
    As a part of the 2007 Oklahoma Centennial Celebration, a huge surge of public art was scattered all across Oklahoma City. This monument is placed in Bicentennial Park in front of the Civic Center Music Hall. It honors the current maestro of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Joel Levine. Levine is the longest serving music director in Oklahoma City’s history. He has taken a very active role in the cultural life of Oklahoma City since his arrival in 1976. His involvement includes activism for the MAPS 1 project and the renovation of the Civic Center, home of the Philharmonic. In 1989, he received The Governor’s Arts Award. Additionally, he was named Oklahoma Musician of the year in 1991, was a 2008 “Treasures of Tomorrow” honoree of the Oklahoma Health Center Foundation, and received an Honorary Doctorate in Music from Oklahoma City University. The statue also pays tribute to the previous conductors Ralph Rose, Victor Alessandro, Guy Fraser Harrison, Ray Luke, Ainslee Cox, and Luis Herrera de la Fuente. Their names are found on the marble base.
  • Mainstreet Edmond
    Mainstreet Edmond
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Purchased with 1% CIP funds through the Edmond Visual Arts Commission Love My Bike is a kinetic bike sculpture placed atop an approximately 15 ft high pole at Gossett Park (northwest side of UCO). The two wheels have red spokes that spin in the wind, providing a colorful eye-catching view to passers-by. Tassles and fins on the handlebars of the bike are not moving parts of this sculpture, only the wheels spin in the wind.
  • Mark Twain
    Mark Twain
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Edmond Visual Arts Commission partnered with R.C. and Billie Van Nostrand On the north side of Edmond is a large retirement community, including homes, apartments, and assisted living facilities. This sculpture of Mark Twain is a bronze life-sized work which has Twain sitting on a metal park bench. He is sitting at one end, with his legs crossed, his head erect, and his hands folded at his knees, holding a small open book. Since it was Winter at the time of our visit, some local Edmonite had added a scarf and knitted cap to our famous author.He is easily recognizable with his large mustache and heavy eyebrows, and an expression which appears to be alert, intelligent, and slightly mischievous. He is dressed in a three-piece suit with a bow tie.
  • Mickey Mantle
    Mickey Mantle
    Category: Memorial/Monument; Outdoor Sculpture
    Mickey Charles Mantle, named after Hall of Fame catcher Mickey Cochrane, was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma on October 20, 1931. A short four years later, his family moved to Commerce, Oklahoma, where he played football, basketball, and of course, baseball. Raised in a baseball family, Mickey would hit right-handed off of his left-handed father, and then bat left-handed off of his right-handed grandfather. After surviving a life-threatening infection from a football injury, Mickey signed to a minor league contract with the Class-D Independence Yankees after graduation in 1948. In 1950 he was promoted to the Class-C Joplin Miners where he won the batting title, with a .383 batting average, 26 home runs, and 136 RBIs. Finally, in 1951 Mantle was assigned to the New York Yankees where he went on to have one of the most prolific baseball careers of all time. Despite a career plagued with injuries, Mantle finished third on the all-time home run list with 536. Additionally, Mantle won the Triple Crown in 1956, received three Most Valuable Player Awards, played in 19 All-Star games, and won seven World Series. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1964, the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974, and selected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. Mantle passed away in 1995 at the age of 63, three years before this statue would be placed in his honor at the Oklahoma City Bricktown Ballpark in 1998. Blair Buswell’s monumental bronze sculpture stands at the third-base entrance at 7’6” tall. Mantle is captured in his powerful swing that led him to be one of the greatest switch-hitters of all time. Buswell was honored in 1990 as the Sport Artist of the Year by the United States Sports Academy.
  • Momentum
    Momentum
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Privately Owned This 20 foot tall steel abstract at Kirkpatrick Bank’s main office replaces the Happy Dancing (Green Man) sculpture. The abstract is located in a circular courtyard on the west side of the building, and the tall, very reflective piece can be seen from both Broadway and 15th street. The piece is a tripodal shape, with the three legs curving up and toward the center, where they meet and then continue outward and up. The bases of the three legs are approximately 9 inches X 18 inches.
  • Monet
    Monet
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Edmond Visual Arts Commission partnered with Mo and Richard Anderson and Fine Arts Institute This is a wonderful piece of art by Gary Price depicting the famous artist Monet, whose contributions to the world of art are numerous. It is appropriately placed in front of the Fine Arts Institute near downtown Edmond. I love this sculpture because it shows the artist at work, painting on his easel. There is even a bronze art box next to him on the bench. The artist thought of everything!   Photos and description by silverquill at https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMAD67_Monet_Edmond_Oklahoma.
  • Morning Mist
    Morning Mist
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Purchased by Central Edmond Urban Board in partnership with Shadid & Schaus before the Edmond Visual Arts Commission was formed Morning Mist shows a young woman barely dressed, maybe just stepping out into the early morning. She is thinly covered with a sheer fabric. The two wings behind her are about 2 1/2 feet high. Her hair is up above her head, then hangs down on the left side. Her eyes are closed. The woman has tall legs, and the left leg is bent slightly and posed on tippy toe. The woman is one of several pieces of art in front of Randel Shadid Law Office, on the southwest corner of Broadway and Hurd. Other sculptures here are the adorable Chauncey (the Rabbit) and Silent Desert. There is also a historical marker on the north side of the building.   Photos and description by silverquill at https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMAD68_Morning_Mist_Edmond_Oklahoma.
  • Moses
    Moses
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Sponsor: Privately Owned This abstract of a standing Moses is on the southwest corner of First Christian Church (NE corner of 2nd and Boulevard). Moses is about 6 1/2 feet tall, and stands on a small square concrete foundation. The sculpture is in a grassy area near the large brick church sign and some trees. Moses holds a tablet with his right hand, against his torso. He has a long beard and long hair that is blowing directly out from the right side of his face. Only his right hand and right foot can be seen from under the long robe he wears.
  • Mother-Daughter Fountain
    Mother-Daughter Fountain
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    “Mother and Daughter” shows a mother playfully holding a fish away from her daughter, representative of the mother’s struggle to keep her daughter from crossing the threshold into adulthood. The fish is symbolic of life’s ideals. It was made for a Bavarian nobleman by Munich artist, Richard Aigher. He was stranded after World War II in Paris, where he had come to cast the statue in bronze. The work caught the eye of Oklahoman J.J. Culbertson Jr., who bought it and eventually donated it to the Rose Garden in Will Rogers Park in Oklahoma City in 1950 and installed as a part of the fountain.      
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