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The Bonita Museum and Cultural Center welcomed its first, large-scale public sculpture by resident and nationally recognized Western artist Mehl Lawson, whose piece officials said symbolizes the community’s equine tradition.
Passersby might already have noticed the life-size, bronze American stud horse settled atop a stone pedestal located in the parking lot of the museum off Bonita Road. The piece — an identical version of a sculpture he created for a ranch in Wyoming — was mounted last week onto its base by a crane after more than a year of sculpting and fundraising during the pandemic, said Bonita Executive Director Wendy Wilson-Gibson.