Client: Cotes des Neiges Cemetery
Location: Montreal, Canada
Completion date: 2003
Artwork budget: $179,914
Project Team
Artist
James Smith
Artist
Peter LeBaron
Overview
Family Memorial carved from GEORGIA CHEROKEE MARBLE with a Barre Grey granite base 190.5CM X 183CM X 335CM carved 1 1/2 times life size.
Goals
This sculpture is the central feature of a family plot at the top of Mount Royal overlooking Montreal Centre - Ville.
Process
A team of James C. Smith, Doug Stephens and Peter Lebaron carved this memorial at Campbell monument Company in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. The image is derived from a sculpture carved in 1895 by William Wetmore Story an American Architect and was found by the client in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Italy.