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Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens
About the Artwork
Proving Polasek's mastery of the male form, the firmly modeled figure has a classically inspired face and a strong, muscular body. Originally created in 1911, the piece in the sculpture garden was cast in 1952.
About the Artist
Albin Polasek
Albin Polasek is heralded as one of America's foremost sculptors of the twentieth century. Born in Frenstat, Moravia (now Czech Republic), he immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-two. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was formally trained under Charles Grafly. He was awarded in the Prix de Rome competition of 1910, with a three year fellowship at the American Academy of Art in Rome. At the age of thirty-seven, he became the head of the Sculpture Department at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1927, he was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design and received full Academician status in 1933. At the age of 71, Polasek retired to Winter Park, Florida, on picturesque Lake Osceola, now the site of the Albin Polasek Museum. A few months later, his artistic efforts were slowed dramatically by a stroke. Yet with determination and resolve, he continued to complete eighteen major works. In his lifetime, Albin Polasek created over four hundred works of art, leaving behind the legacy of a "man carving his own destiny".
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The Orange County Courthouse houses a collection of WPA era art with prints by some of the most famous American artists of that time period.
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For those who have eyes to see, there are hundreds of works of art around them. This web site provides some information on many of those works of art that can be regularly viewed in Orange County by any member of the public without an admission fee. They are outside in public view, or located in an interior area that is normally open to the public.
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