The Evangelist - New Britain, CT - Abstract Public Sculptures on Waymarking.com

The Evangelist is a stainless steel sculpture in the form of a 5' high cross fabricated with a series of flat planes set on a beveled 3' high stainless steel base. The four arms of the cross represents the four evangelist of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Also, the sculpture intentionally suggest the shape of a soaring bird. The sculptor, Caroline Lee, has described the sculpture as "the materialized external form of a kind of spiritual inner life".

A bronze plaque next to the sculpture is inscribed:

Caroline Lee (1932 - )
The Evangelist
Stainless steel

Gift of Dr. Samuel Johnson,
Dr. Theodore Johnson, and
Mrs. Patricia Johnson Andrews,
given in memory of their parents,
Anne Bingham Johnson and Herbert E. Johnson
1980.17

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