This lovely work of art replaced the second of the two side relief sculptures stolen in the 1980s from the Horace Wells Memorial at Hartford’s Cedar Hill Cemetery. This south-facing replacement bronze (left) was cast by sculptor Anatoly Mikhailov. Beneath the waking woman (right) he cast the phrase: “I Awaken to Glory.” Opening around her with the dawning day are flowering morning glories. Both of Mikhailov’s sculptures—this one and the north-facing “I Sleep to Awaken”—memorialize nitrous oxide pioneer Horace Wells. (Copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc.)
This lovely work of art replaced the second of the two side relief sculptures stolen in the 1980s from the Horace Wells Memorial at Hartford’s Cedar Hill Cemetery. This south-facing replacement bronze (left) was cast by sculptor Anatoly Mikhailov. Beneath the waking woman (right) he cast the phrase: “I Awaken to Glory.” Opening around her with the dawning day are flowering morning glories. Both of Mikhailov’s sculptures—this one and the north-facing “I Sleep to Awaken”—memorialize nitrous oxide pioneer Horace Wells. (Copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc.)
George S. Bause, M.D., M.P.H., Honorary Curator, ASA’s Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Park Ridge, Illinois, and Clinical Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. UJYC@aol.com.
