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Image on file.
Board of Parks & Recreation Commissioners, Kansas City, MO, "Historic & Dedicatory Monuments of Kansas City," 1987, pg. 72-73.
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Summary:
The equestrian figure of St. Martin dominates the composition. He is centrally placed in an irregularly shaped fountain basin flanked by two larger basins, also irregularly shaped. A smaller, separate basin placed between the central and east basins contains one of the subsidiary figures. St. Martin holds a sword across his body in his proper right hand, and holds one half of his cloak open in his proper left hand. Below Martin is the figure of a beggar, whose head is upturned and proper right arm upraised to receive the half of the cloak that Martin is about to give him. Three other figures witness the action: a seated centaur peering through his fingers; a seated angel wearing a wristwatch and scratching his leg; and another angel playing a flute, suspended high above Martin on a stalk.
