An opportunity for Gloucester
Ward meeting Monday on proposed sculpture at Solomon Jacobs Park
Dear friends:
On Monday, Jan. 26, at 6 p.m. Councilor Melissa Cox and I will be hosting a dual ward meeting at Maritime Gloucester on Harbor Loop to present the proposal to install a sculpture by the renowned artist and son of Gloucester David Black.
David, who was born here and was valedictorian of his class at Gloucester High School is making a gift to the city of a sculpture entitled “High Seas.” The sculpture will be located at Solomon Jacobs Park, between Maritime Gloucester and the Coast Guard Station.
David, who traces his roots back to the early families of Gloucester, including the Tarrs and the Wonsons, whose names appear on the old paint Manufactory across the harbor from the park, is a world famous artist. His works appear in cities around the world, including and Berlin, Germany, Washington DC, Nagano, Japan, and Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio. His sculptures epitomize the best of modern art, capturing in steel and shape the spirit of a place.
“High Seas” evokes billowing sails and stormy seas in a modern idiom. It embodies Gloucester’s past and its future. It is fitting that it be located just down the hill from the Fitz Henry Lane house. David is very much in the tradition of the artists who have found inspiration in Gloucester for more than three centuries. He is donating his normal commission to the city as a gift to the place of his birth.
I encourage you to attend the meeting to hear for yourself about this exciting opportunity to enrich our city’s already rich artistic and cultural legacy.
Good Morning Gloucester 
just no
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Sounds like a good idea. It’s in a park–one with not much else going on–so it sounds pretty cool. Why “just no”? Just curious.
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Plenty goes on down at that park including the Harbor Loop Concert Series. I eat lunch regularly at that exact spot and I don’t want that looming overhead when I am trying to eat and enjoy an unobstructed view of the harbor.
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Paul/Melissa: What would the material be? I note the word “steel” in the article, that would be an eyesore in short order, if Stainless Steel, or Aluminum, i could be in favor.
Thanks
Joe
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I fail to see how this in any way represents Gloucester. I have spent a lot of time on the ocean, and this does not convey the ocean to me in the least. Maybe if this was to be placed down on Rockyneck with the artist and art lovers it could/would be appreciated, but us blue collar folk down on the working waterfront just ain’t gettin’ it nor do we want to pay for it.
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A better site for that sculpture would be Blackburn Circle.
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Sorry, no it wouldn’t… We already have the windmills as enough distraction up there… Can you imagine the accidents as people try to figure out what the heck it is ! Or for scrap metal twisted art lovers, trying to take selfies with it….
Leave things alone!
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I thought Solomon Jacobs Park was designed with the intent of preserving an open space and an unobstructed view of the harbor?
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Exactly !
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