Figurative Public Sculpture: Keep Flyin' - Montréal, PQ, Canada

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Keep Flyin'

Montréal, PQ, Canada

Topic: Figurative Public Sculpture

GPS: N45° 29.350; W073° 34.970

Quick Description: 

The sculpture entitled Keep Flyin' is located near the entrance to the Montréal Children's Hospital.

Long Description:

Keep Flyin' is a 6' long by 4' high bronze sculpture that depicts five children sitting on a sled placed on the slope of a granite boulder. All the children are dressed in winter clothing and display excited expressions as they slide downhill. The sculpture was created by Blair Muhlestein as 18/21 copies copyrighted in 1991. A bronze plaque on the boulder is inscribed:


AUX JEUNES PATIENTS, AUX PARENTS
ET TU PERSONNEL
DE L'HÔSPITAL DE MONTRÉAL POUR ENFANTS
AVRIL 1997

TOUJOURS PLUS HAUT
KEEP FLYIN'

TO THE CHILDREN, PARENTS AND STAFF
OF THE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
APRIL 1997