Unicorn in the Garden
- Bronze
- 53 x 34 x 24 in
- Jack Greaves
Standing quietly in small thicket in the Jefferson Avenue Historic District is the Unicorn in the Garden. The statue was created by Jack Greaves, a sculptor and painter, best known for his animal sculptures along Battelle Riverfront Park and the Columbus School for Girls. He was born in Leeds, studying at the Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art. Most of his work is based around narrative stories caught in a moment of time.
The sculpture is a realistic full-figure bronze statue of a unicorn standing spread-eagle with the back level and with all four feet on a flat bronze base. It is facing the proper right but with the head turned toward the proper left looking over the left shoulder. The tail is curved forward over the rump in a lazy "S" configuration. The mouth holds a lily stem crossways with the two blossoms projecting from the right side (toward the proper front).
The figure is otherwise unadorned. The sculpture is mounted in a garden like setting on a seven-inch thick concrete slab perched atop a two foot high earthen mound (approximately 11' in diameter) amidst a dense planting of daylilies on the slopes. The mound is surrounded by a circular but variable width (four feet' wide at rear to eight and one-half feet wide in front) concrete walk which in turn is ringed by a planting of shrubs and small trees. The garden is part of a large treed parkway (grass median) of a bifurcated urban street.
- Created: 1987
- Current Location: Thurber Park (google map)
- Collections: Outdoor, Sculptures