Clue: It was created by a local artist and is outside one of Boston's important cultural institutions.
Since we like to encourage our readers to look around as they walk throughout the city, we post an occasional visual scavanger hunt. In these "Attention to Detail" posts, we give you a photo clue and see if you can recognize where you've seen it.
Since we like to encourage our readers to look around as they walk throughout the city, we post an occasional visual scavanger hunt. In these "Attention to Detail" posts, we give you a photo clue and see if you can recognize where you've seen it.
"Attention to Detail" is also a weekly newspaper column from the BostonZest team.
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It's the snout of a Katharine Lane Weems Rhinoceros. The one in the clue is on The Fenway, outside the Grossman Gallery, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts .
This particular sculpture is cast in polyester resin and fiberglass with bronze powders. A pair of Rhinoceros by Weems stand outside the Harvard University Biological Laboratories in Cambridge. Those are made of bronze and weigh 3 tons each.
Katharine Lane Weems (1899–1989) was a noted animal sculptor who lived at 53 Marlborough Street in the Back Bay. Her home is now the French Library & Cultural Center.
Details:
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
230 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 (Map)
617-369-3718
www.smfa.edu
Writer: Penny Cherubino
Photos: © 2010 Penny Cherubino
230 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 (Map)
617-369-3718
www.smfa.edu
Writer: Penny Cherubino
Photos: © 2010 Penny Cherubino
