Sculpture: gum tree, Chinese muslin, plywood, steel, and fiberglass resin; Base: fiberglass and steel
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures-Copy
Sculptures-Folk
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by Lions Club McRae Georgia 31055
Located Liberty Square McRae Georgia
Date:
Dedicated 1986. Reinstalled July 1991
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia survey, 1994.
Image on file.
The Telfair Times, July 10, 1991, pg. 9.
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Summary:
An allegorical female figure, representing Liberty, stands holding a torch in her upraised proper right hand and a book in her proper left hand. She is dressed in draped robes and wears a seven-pointed crown. The figure's head is chain saw carved from a gum tree stump. Her robes are made of Chinese muslin with partially hidden hoops of plywood. The body is covered with a fiberglass resin. An interior steel support runs through the figure. The sculpture is mounted upon a short fiberglass base atop a steel base fashioned to look like a brick structure with four integrated columns on each side.
