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Description
Taken on October 26, 1928, in the State Library's Circulation Room, this Edward Field Sanford, Jr., sculpture symbolizes ""Inspiration."" The work was done in green bronze and Sanford was quoted in the 1939 Sacramento Bee Guide Book as saying that ""Inspiration...is a rather indefinite subject, and I attempted to express it by creating the most beautiful possible representation of the idealized female form; wishing her to be desirable, attainable, yet unobtainable. The child is intended to symbolize the eternal mystery, and the nucleus from which inspiration springs.""
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