LocationAt north side of Garden Center within the mall area (In Loose Park) |
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Artist/Designer: Jeanette Klein
Installed: 1942
Description
A competition was held to select the sculptor for this wall fountain for Jacob Loose Park Rose Garden. Jeanette Klein of Kansas City was awarded the commission and she created larger-than-life-size figures of a man and a woman, which were placed in semicircular niches on the south wall of a service building. They were unveiled during the 1942 Rose Day celebration. The kneeling figures each hold bowls from which water trickle into keep retrain basins at the base of the niches. The water elements were eliminated in 1946 and returned during a conservation of the fountains in 2011.
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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