Spiritualized Life - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 18.606 W 081° 40.757
17R E 434688 N 3353343
The Spiritualized Life statue/fountain is located in Memorial Park in Jacksonville, Florida.
Waymark Code: WMJNAH
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/08/2013
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Memorial Park, where this art is located, is an Olmsted-designed park. The sculptor, Charles Adrian Pillars (1870-1937), was a local resident of Jacksonville for 26 years and is also known for creating the State of Florida’s two statues that reside in National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
The following description of the sculpture is from the Smithsonian Art Inventory:
"A sculpture in which six youthful figures appear to be emerging from a swirling globe-shaped mass. The figures are nude and are positioned on a diagonal encircling the globe. Atop the globe is a standing male nude with wings. His proper left arm is stretched out to the side. His proper right arm is stretched up above his head and he holds a branch in his proper right hand. He wears a wreath on his head and is sleek and youthful. The sculpture is in the center of a polygonal concrete basin with spiral ridges converging in the center. Two steps lead from the concrete and brick plaza to the basin."
Four bronze plaques are attached to the basin with the following inscriptions:
FRONT:
In memoriam
Dedicated to the citizens of Florida
Who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War
1914-1918
RIGHT SIDE:
Spiritualized Life
Symbolized by the winged figure of youth
Rises triumphant from the swirl of war's chaos which engulfs humanity
and faces the future courageously
LEFT SIDE:
Completed and conveyed
To the city of Jacksonville, Florida
AD 1924
BACK:
Erected in gratitude
By the citizens of Duval County, Florida