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The StatueTrail [3.9 KM]
The Statue Trail
This route includes 23 sculptures. The sculptures presented here are those located nearby.
A Man and a Cat Called Yitz
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Robert Shure graduated with a BFA in sculpture, cum laude, from the New York Institute of Technology, and received his MFA in sculpture, cum laude, from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. Shure is a plaster cast and bronze expert, and restoration expert, as well as a sculptor in his own right. He is president of Skylight Studios in Woburn, Massachusetts.
The bronze sculpture, A Man and a Cat Called Yitz, was commissioned by Technion Guardian Robert (Dr Bob) Shillman of Massachusetts. As a young man, Shillman had spent a summer in the Faculty of Physics where he befriended one of the campus strays, Yitz.
Gift of Robert (Dr Bob) Shillman