Day Dream
About the Sculpture
Daydreams is a statue resembling Dorothy and Toto from L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz" and was dedicated in Cooper Park on July 12, 2002. The original plan to bring this sculpture began 2 years prior with Steve Larrick, president of the South Salt Creek Community Organization. He wanted to bring back some of the joy that was lost in 1990 when the three little pig's brick house was bulldozed. Larrick contacted Sondra Jonson about her bronze sculpture Daydreams, and the organization began raising the $13,500 to acquire it.
L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wizard of Oz" in the 1890s and many believe that he was writing about the Populist movement led by William Jennings Bryan, who was represented by the Cowardly Lion. William Jennings Bryan, a Lincoln native, was connected to Cooper Park because of his help with leading the City Improvement Society in dedicating the first major improvements to the park on July 12, 1900.
"Daydreams brings back memories of Dorothy and Toto, rekindling the innocence and freedom of our childhood dreams." -Sondra Jonson
About the Artist
Sondra L. Jonson of S. L. Studios has been thinking of a career in art since the age of 5. She was born in Philadelphia, PA and studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Centro de Estudios Hispanicos (Madrid, Spain) and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College and the Frudakis Academy of Art.
She established her studio in 1985, and her work consists of sculptures, from miniature to monuments and is on display across the United States and in Europe. Two more of her pieces can be found in Lincoln, Clancy and Jan's Emma.
Additional Information
Cooper Park
Length: 1.5 ft.
Width: 1.5 ft.
Height: 4 ft.
Location
950 S 6th St., Lincoln 68508 View Map
40.803683, -96.710291
950 S 6th St. ,
Lincoln 68508
950 S 6th St. ,
Lincoln 68508
Day Dream