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All Nations Totem

Artist: Thomas Glover and Harold Locke

Date created: 2002

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Statue

All Nations Totem is the focal piece within the Lakeside Park sculpture garden. Totems are sacred to Native Americans and speak to both the relationship and respect the people have with nature. This totem is a unique interpretation of St....

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American Beach

Artist: Thomas Glover

Date created: 2003

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Natural Material

American Beach (Bird Beach Bath) is a work that embodies Thomas Glover’s oeuvre and is a testament to his artistic legacy. It features luscious whirling movement in both the water and human limbs creating a dialogue between nature and fluid female...

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Curtain

Artist: Thomas Glover White

Date created: 2005

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Statue

Medium(s): Natural Material

A composition of the artist's favorite subject matter, nature, fish with human features, the female body or maybe mermaids, all entangled in this natural curtain. A curtain of fish cascades playfully along a female figure while swirling abstraction...

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Españolas

Artist: Marianne Lerbs

Date created: 2009

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Statue

Medium(s): Natural Material

Españolas includes two figures that embody the first European women who lived in Florida. Each one has an hourglass figure that mimics gigantic wine glasses. The tallest figure has curves that suggest she is dancing, while a parasol delicately...

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Flowering

Artist: Alvin Felch

Date created: 2007

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Statue

Medium(s): Marble

Alvin Felch is an artist who worked with the environment and sculpted almost exclusively in wood or stone. He lived and worked closely with the Kickapoo tribe in Wisconsin and sought to create monumental sculptures that foster community appreciation...

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Four Hurricanes

Artist: Thomas Glover White

Date created: 2005

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Statue

Medium(s): Marble ; Natural Material

Living in Florida can sometimes be challenging. We have been in the path of powerful hurricanes quite often. When we get direct hits or near misses by hurricanes, it can be quite unnerving. A dog? A wolf? Holding the menace by the tail? Confronting...

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LORELEI

Artist: Thomas Glover White

Date created: 2004

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Natural Material

We think of Mermaids as part fish part human creatures. The mythical creatures were a leitmotif of Thomas Glover W.'s sculptural work. This mermaid though, has a full human form, and her name is Lorelei. Lorelei is a work that captures both Thomas...

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Sinornis

Artist: Gary Tebrugge

Date created: 2004

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Steel

This semi-abstract metal sculpture is part dinosaur, part bird. The mythical Sinornis was the same, a part ancient creature but part modern bird simultaneously, believed to be the first bird capable of flight while still having dinosaur features....

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Spirits of Timucua

Artist: Thomas Glover and Deborah Olivieri

Date created: 2008

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Statue

Medium(s): Natural Material

The steatite stone sculpture is a collaboration between the seasoned sculptor, Thomas Glover, and a talented tattoo artist, Deborah Olivieri. Together the two artists honored the Timucua culture. Miss Deborah contributed the sculpted piece "Spirits...

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Sport Fishing in Florida

Artist: Thomas Glover White

Date created: 2002

Category: Art Garden

Medium(s): Natural Material

Thomas Glover White was an avid fisherman. But he was very aware of the delicate balance of nature, and the impact of what overfishing could do. His whimsical use of anthropomorphic fish faces along with human features are part of his sculptural...

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St. Augustine Beach Sculpture Garden

Artist: Thomas Glover, Marianne Lerbs, Harold Locke, Gary Tebrugge, Deborah Olivieri, and Alvin Felch

Date created: 2002-2011

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Marble ; Natural Material ; Steel

Thomas Glover developed the idea of a sculpture garden for the community in 1994. Glover and Marianne Lerbs, his wife, worked with artists Harold Locke, Gary Terbugge, Deborah Olivieri, and Alvin Felch to create eighteen stone and metal pieces they...

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Thacker Bow Figures

Artist: Thomas Glover White

Date created: 2009

Category: Art Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Statue

Medium(s): Natural Material

Thomas Glover W. was commissioned to carve a couple of mermaid figures to be mounted on the twin bows of a catamaran. He liked the theme so much that he was inspired to create this pair of lovely mermaids to swim in the St. Augustine Beach Sculpture...

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