The much-delayed “East Meets West” sculpture will finally be installed later this summer at Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza in Tulsa, reported the Tulsa World.
The City Council heard an update this week on the $1.2 million Vision 2025 project, which likely will have its official unveiling in October after it arrives and is assembled, and a patina has been applied. […]
The sculpture, by Texas artist Robert Summers, features Cyrus Avery and his family riding in a Model-T as they encounter a horse-drawn carriage on its way from the west Tulsa oil fields.
Avery, a former Tulsa County commissioner, is considered the father of Route 66 because he lobbied Congress in 1926 to make it a national highway stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles.
The sculpture went through about three years of various delays, including when Summers suffered catastrophic injuries in a fall.