Icarus
In Greek mythology, Icarus and his father, Daedelus, were trapped on the island of Crete. To escape, Daedelus made wings of feathers held together with wax. Daedalus warned his son not to fly near the hot sun or the wax would melt, but Icarus did not listen.
Also in the collections at the University of Kansas, Lawrence; Oklahoma Art Museum, Oklahoma City.
Material: Bronze
Dimension: 70 x 47 x 30
Location: Garden
Visual Description: Icarus 1965 Bronze The 5 ' high sculpture of a nude winged man suspended upside down. A first impression is a jumble of arms, legs and wings. Following the w-shaped line of his wings going inwards towards his bdy, you meet the wide shallow groove that is his spine as it curves down to his grapefruit-sized head. He has coarsely modeled hair, deep eye sockets, a muscular chest, long slender legs, sharply bent at hip and knee.