Isabel McIlvain’s statue of John F. Kennedy shows the former President striding forward, eyes ahead. He holds his left hand as if he were about to thrust it into the pocket of his jacket. It was a characteristic pose that appears frequently in Kennedy photographs, Ms. McIlvain says.
“His mother probably told him never to do that, but he did anyway. All of his suits are sort of sagged out from it,” says Ms. McIlvain.
In her sculpture, which stands on the grounds of the Massachusetts Capitol, Ms. McIlvain says she was striving to reflect a balance between public and private, between Presidential and personal.
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