Boy with Thorn

LOCATION
The Raphael Hotel, 325 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, MO

OWNER
The Raphael Hotel

ARTIST
Bernhard Zuckerman

DATES
1976

MEDIUM
Marble (sculpture), concrete (base)

In front of the Raphael Hotel is Boy with Thorn. It is a copy of the original 5th century sculpture that resides in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy and it was sculpted by Bernhard Zuckerman. The sculpture depicts a nude boy sitting on a stone pillar or wall trying to remove a thorn from the bottom of his left foot.