Folk art 'Garden of Gethsemane' by Felix Lucero

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By: kjfitz @ 2008-01-21 10:07:22
Description: Tucson’s park features the work of Felix Lucero, an untrained artist who spent years molding the riverbed statues.

Lucero died in 1951, at the age of 56.

In 1947, he told a Star reporter that his work was the result of a promise he made to God while lying wounded on a French battlefield during World War I.

After moving to Tucson in 1938, Lucero began molding his religious statues from damp riverbed sand. He lived in a cardboard-and-plywood shack beneath the then two-lane Congress Street bridge.

“His work was more visible than he was,” said Matt Perri, 62, who grew up about a block away from where the sculpture park is now.
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Location: Tucson, Arizona (AZ), United States (US)
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kjfitz @ 2008-01-21 10:07:42
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