Happy 2012.

With the end of the holiday season, the Sunday Sculpture Vulture feature returns. 2012 marks the 45th anniversary of Raymond Rebsamen giving the sculpture Daedalus and Icarus to the Little Rock Public Library (now Central Arkansas Library System). Rebsamen, a local businessman and philanthropist, had served on the Library board. It was originally displayed in a courtyard at the corner of 7th and Louisana Streets on the site of the original Carnegie library building. When CALS moved to Rock and 2nd Streets, the statue was moved to a new courtyard where it is more visible.

The statue depicts a scene from the Greek myth of hubris where Daedalus is trying to keep his son from flying too close to the sun. It is created by EvAngelos W. Frudakis. This was one of his first commissions; he is still active with a studio in Kerrville, Texas.