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Citrus Bowl
About the Artwork
The approximately 12-foot sculpture, which stands outside the Citrus Bowl, is a reproduction of the 24-inch George L. Stuart Memorial Trophy, originally crafted by the late Edmond Romulus Amateis, a world-renowned sculptor who practiced in Central Florida. The sculpture is an embodiment of the spirit and purpose of the Florida Citrus Bowl, named in honor of the late Orlando businessman who was an inspired leader of the Bowl Game from its inception in 1947 until his death in 1975. The image of a football player, with his helmet under one arm and a crippled child held in the other, is symbolic of the bowl’s charitable goal to benefit children’s hospitals.
About the Artist
William Kilpatrick
William Kilpatrick is a graduate of Newark School of Fine & Industrial Arts, and also studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York and in special courses at the Arts Students’ League. Before his sculptural work, he painted in oils and acrylic. Now he works in clay and then in bronze creating both abstract and realistic, albeit romantic, figurative pieces. Among his many commissions are several in the Orlando area. He has exhibited in one-person and group shows nationwide, was chosen to represent the United States in the ITT International Art Exhibit and Traveling Exhibition, and his work appears in private collections in the United States, Canada, Belgium and France.
Edmond Amateis
born of American parents in Rome, Italy. His father, Louis Amateis was also a sculptor and professor of fine arts at Columbian University in Washington, D.C. where the son received his early education. His studies at the Beaux-Arts Instittute of Design. He became a prominent American sculptor during the first half of the twentieth century.
Did you know?
A stained glass window which won a fine arts prize at the 1876 Centinial Exhibition in Philadelphia was dismantled and stored under a bed in an Orange County home for years before being reassembled and placed in Reeves Memorial Methodist Church over 100 years after it was created.
Discover Art in Central Florida!
For those who have eyes to see, there are hundreds of works of art around them.
This web site provides some information on many of those works of art that can
be regularly viewed in Orange County by any member of the public without an
admission fee. They are outside in public view, or located in an interior area
that is normally open to the public.
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