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Kennedy's Eternal Flame

Artists

William Joseph Thompson

John Leon

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Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory

Description:

The sculpture is a strongly abstracted portrait of John F. Kennedy. The face is the most realistic, with the figure becoming more abstract from the neck down.

The sculpture is a strongly abstracted portrait of John F. Kennedy. The face is the most realistic, with the figure becoming more abstract from the neck down.

Dates

Made: 1964

Plaque Text

""The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in thelife of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization." John F. Kennedy"

Additional Notes

Statue commemorating
President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
and the eternal flame.

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Address:

300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469
Dayton, Ohio 45469
Montgomery County

Materials

Original sculpture of cement and marble
by Bill Thompson, 1964.
Recasting in bronze by John Leon, 1998.

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