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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.
Artist Mehl Lawson created this life-size statue of WR This Cats Smart now on display Author: Mario Escovedo Updated: 5:53 PM PDT April 15, 2021
A new statue on display symbolizes the Bonita community s history and culture as horse country.
Artist Mehl Lawson created a life-sized bronze statue atop a rock base now on display in front of the location at 4355 Bonita Road.
It was unveiled this past Monday, April 12.
Lawson is a nationally recognized western artist and artist in residence at the museum.
He actually sculpted the project called WR This Cats Smart inside the museum.
Lawson says It took six to seven months to create the sculpture here at the museum and it s really exciting to get people visiting the museum and watch the progress of WR. I sculpt these projects out of clay, we use a pipe and styrofoam armature and we cover it with a skin of clay to get all the detail. Once we get that part done it goes off to my foundry an