THE FIRST OPEN HOUSE EVENT AT STUDIO WHITFIELD IS SCHEDULED FOR APRIL.  FOR INFORMATION ABOUT DATES, TIME AND FEATURED ART WORK, CONTACT Susan@studiowhitfield.com

re-located to Houston in August, 2004  The two-ton abstract sculpture was moved from its former site in Topeka, Kansas to Houston, Texas for installation on the campus of The Menninger Clinic, now affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital. The sculpture was transported from Kansas to Houston  aboard a tractor-trailer and is visible to the thousands of motorists who pass through the busy intersection of Gessner and Kempwood Drives.

Named The Vital Balance after a book of the same title by Clinic co-founder the late Karl Menninger, MD, the 21-foot abstract artwork is built of copper sheets covered by a coating of nickel bronze in brush-like strokes, an effect achieved with a welding torch. The piece was created in honor of Menninger’s founding family by Kansas sculptor, John Whitfield, who attempted to portray balance without symmetry and was dedicated on Dr. Menninger’s 90th birthday, July 22, 1983. The sculpture has resided for more than 20 years in a courtyard-like setting on Menninger’s Topeka campus. For some pictures of the move, http://www.menningerclinic.org/newsroom/graphic-gallery.htm#sculpture