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Featured Work
Mohandas K. Ghandi
Sculpture (EXTERIOR)
Lake Eola Park
About the Artwork
A bronze head of Mohandas K. Ghandi mounted on black marble. The inscription reads, “Mohandas K. Ghandi, 1869-1948; Mohatma (Great Soul) Ghandi, a pivitol world figure of the 20th century who renounced all worldly possessions, devoting his life to work for the dignity and uplift the downtrodden. He led India to freedom from British Rule with peaceful resistance and non-violence. ‘Injustice to one person is injustice and injuries to all of us.’-Mohandas K. Ghandi; Presented to the City of Orlando in the spirit of universal peace by Gopal K. Pai Family Foundation.”
Did you know?
Albin Polasek, heralded as one of America's foremost sculptors of the twentieth century, retired to Winter Park in 1950 where he completed 18 more major works
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.
Look around this web site and find something that interests you. Then go see it
in person. The information you find here will add to the pleasure of exploring
public art in Central Florida.
If, in your travels around Orange County, you come across some public art that
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