Wings - Stillwater, OK
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This aviation themed sculpture is located at the entrance to the Ray and Linda Booker OSU Flight Center in Stillwater.
Waymark Code: WM17CT9
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/27/2023
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The Ray and Linda Booker OSU Flight Center celebrated its opening on February 26, 2022. The state-of-the-art facility is located southeast of the Stillwater Airport.
Gary Lee Price's sculpture titled "Wings" is in a sculpture garden, and has the following text on the plaque:
Gary Lee Price
Wings, 2020
Bronze
Gift of Linda Booker.
"Fly Boy" In Memory of Ray Booker.
Collection of Oklahoma State University Museum of Art
2021.005.001
This bronze sculpture depicts a young boy, dressed in overalls, as he leaps up, arms spread, holding a toy airplane. His right leg is bend, in motion, and he holds the airplane in his outstretched right arm. The height of the piece is approximately five feet tall, on a marble foundation.
A little about the piece, from Gary Lee Price's website:
Zac, my oldest boy, first modeled for this piece when he was about nine years old. His long, sinewy, but well-muscled body was perfect for this piece, just as I had visualized it. It was as though his arms really were wings reaching out as far as they could. Of all the sculptures I have created over the years, Wings is one of my favorites.
It’s a very therapeutic piece for me; it represents the freedom and the joy we so often lose while focusing on our demanding and busy lives. The mail-order glider becomes a symbol of our dreams and aspirations. With this creation, I wanted to express childhood and fascination with flight. To me, flight represents release from our restraints and rising above our problems. With flight, we often gain that all-so-important perspective on the world, on life. I feel like I have to take a couple of flights each year just to rise above the earth and rediscover some of that vision.
–Gary Lee Price
Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Wings
Figure Type: Human
Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Gary Lee Price
Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 2020
Materials used: Bronze
Location: Ray and Linda Booker OSU Flight Center
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