We checked out this sculpture, with its striking angles and flowing robes, near the entrance of the Children's Room at the Detroit Public Library the same day we went there to photograph the colorful Millard Sheets mosaic at the building's main Cass Avenue entrance.
"Exploration" by Joseph Nicola DeLauro is a 7-foot-tall bronze figure created in 1967 that depicts the joys of exploration and discovery of new knowledge available at the library.
DeLauro established the Fine Arts Department at the University of Windsor (Ontario) in 1960, the first university in Ontario to gain the authority to grant bachelor of fine arts degrees. He also taught at Detroit's Marygrove College and the University of Detroit Mercy.
DeLauro, born in Connecticut in 1916, graduated from Yale with a BFA degree, and the school's alumni magazine reported that he died in 2006.
Want to learn more about the city's public art? Check out Art in Detroit Public Places by Dennis Alan Nawrocki.
Thanks to Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby for creating and coordinating Photo Friday to link travel photos and blog posts across the Web.
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