Arts & Culture
Elbert Hubbard, the “Sage of East Aurora,” was a benefactor of the arts and crafts based on the ideals of John Ruskin and William Morris. A statue by eminent Irish sculptor and early Roycrofter Jerome Connor was dedicated in 1930 and erected on the Roycroft Campus by the Roycrofters with contributions from over fifteen hundred of Hubbard’s friends and admirers. The statues were relocated here in 1952 through the generosity of Irving L. Price and the Erie County Trust Company. Michelangelo, a Florentine artist, sculptor, architect, and poet of the Renaissance, was honored by a bronze copy from the original sculpture in the rotunda of the Congressional Library, erected by his admirer Elbert Hubbard in 1909 on the Roycroft Campus. The work was by noted American sculptor Paul Bartlett, and the turtle is Bartlett’s signature, symbolizing his perpetual slowness in execution.
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