Sculptureworks, Inc.

Leo Osborne
"Sunrise"
Bronze, Edition of 49
13" x 38" x 23"
Part of the permanent collection of the Wenatchee Performing Arts Center (Wenatchee, WA) and the Worrell Investment Co. Inc. (Charlottesville, NC).

"Sunrise" is shown on display at the Sculptureworks, Inc. 2003 "Beauties, Beasts, and Books . . . " Sculpture Show and Sale at the Biedenharn Museum and Garden in Monroe, LA. Photograph by Elizabeth Loggins.

"Sunrise" is shown on display at the Sculptureworks, Inc. 2001 "The Garden of Eden" Sculpture Show and Sale at the Memphis Botanic Garden in Memphis, TN.

"Sunrise" is shown at the Memphis Botanic Garden as part of a Sculptureworks, Inc. display.

"Sunrise" is shown at the Danville, IL, Public Library as part of a Sculptureworks, Inc. display.

"Sunrise" is shown on display at the Flower Mound, TX, Public Library. Photograph by Elizabeth Loggins.

"Sunrise" is shown at a Sculptureworks, Inc. display at the Westbank Community Library in Austin, TX.

The sculpture "Sunrise" shows a lounging lion. The wooden original of this sculpture is part of the permanent collection of the Worrell Investment Co. Inc. (Charlottesville, NC). The sculpture shown here is a bronze casting made from a mold of the wooden original.

SUNRISE

Power – grace – elegance
emerging from it’s own plinth
Rising out of burlwood textures
raw and primal essence

Lion awakens to the dawn of a new age
new insights about ancient truths
Truths that stalk us
and devour us
Only to be born again
and allowed to sprout once more
from the chaotic patterns of grain
within the nature of the burl

-Poem by Leo Osborne

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