(On proper right pants cuff:) No. 2 Keith Knoblock 89 (On front of base:) WE NEED A GREATER REALIZATION OF THE FACT/THAT SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE WORTH/MORE THAN MATERIAL THINGS. "BUT SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HIS/RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THESE THINGS/SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU."/R. G. LETOURNEAU (On lower front portion of base:) R. G. LETOURNEAU/1888-1969/MOVER OF MEN AND MOUNTAINS signed
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Summary:
A portrait of Robert Gilmour LeTourneau, standing and holding a hat in his proper right hand. He wears eyeglasses and is dressed in a business suit. The statue stands atop a Cor-Ten steel pedestal with a relief plaques on either side. The plaques depict scenes of giant earth-moving equipment, like that invented by LeTourneau. Behind the statue and the plaza are three pieces of machinery invented by LeTourneau.
