Description
Parks serve not only as ornaments to a city, but as conducive to the health and happiness of its inhabitants and to the advancement of refinement and culture.” – Henry Shaw (Tower Grove Park dedication-1868). Commissioned by a park board member to express the park’s “pavilions, people, and trees”, the painting is meant to serve the mission of Tower Grove Park today: “to be an exemplary, well-preserved, wooded Victorian park of international significance that provides important recreational, educational and cultural opportunities for the public in a way that is compatible with its unique and historic character.
