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Beniamino Bufano's StatueSculptor Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano produced an intriguing body of highly stylized work. Known as Benny, the diminutive artist was a peace activist who, to protest the First World War, cut off his trigger finger and sent it to President Woodrow Wilson. In the introduction to a biography of Bufano, the playwright Arthur Miller called him “an iconoclast, an innovator, a revolutionary from head to toe. He believes man’s condition on earth can be changed and will be changed – by men of good will.” Perhaps this is the reason Bufano chose Louis Pasteur as his subject. With a rounded yet streamlined Art Deco quality, Bufano’s style is well represented in his depiction of Pasteur. Bufano decorated his terrazzo and pink granite sculpture with a shiny stainless steel cape. Located on the San Rafael, California, High School campus, the statue is known affectionately and simply as “Louie” and has been a traditional afternoon meeting place for students since it was erected in July 1940. A San Rafael High School publication explained the choice of subject: “Louis Pasteur, a giant in science and humanitarianism, can be an object of inspiration to all.” Date: 1940 Location: San Rafael, California Acknowledgment: Marie-Claude Fortier, Vera Hunt and Christine Morgan
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