Artist: Sharon Engelstein (Houston, TX)
Title: Your Loyal Mighties
Completion Date: May 2010
Medium: Synthetic stone
Funding Source: Percent for Art – City of Houston, General Services Department
Location: 5005 Little York Road
Council District B

Your Loyal Mighties honors the animals that work daily with the Houston Police Department to safeguard the city’s residents and visitors. Created for the exterior grounds of the facility, the artwork consists of three monumental figures rendered in synthetic stone. These include a fourteen-foot high horse loosely modeled on the Percheron, a breed known for strength, intelligence and hard work, and two six-foot tall German Shepherds that flank the facility’s main entrance like protective sentinels. Working with digital modeling, Engelstein seamlessly blends naturalistic rendering with the grandeur of historical animal stone carving to create heroically scaled symbols of these loyal partners.

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