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1980's Bronze Delta Kappa Gamma Golden Rule Award from JC Penney. 8" tall x 8.5"<br>wide at base, solid bronze with a marble base, heavy. Press photo shown is just<br>a copy of something someone else sold previously therefore not included.<br><br>A bronze flame is the symbol of the JC Penney Golden Rule Award, presented in<br>recognition of outstanding volunteer service to the community. The Award,<br>accompanied by a $1,000 grant to support the volunteer's work, is given to an<br>individual or organization selected by a distinguished panel of civic leaders in<br>a community-wide competition. The Award reflects a tradition of community<br>service at JC Penney that has persisted since James Cash Penney in 1902 opened<br>his first store, called "The Golden Rule." Sculptor Greg Wyatt represents his<br>bronze flame-of-freedom as the spirit of the volunteer's free choice to help a<br>neighbor.<br><br><br>Greg Wyatt is an American representational sculptor who works primarily in cast<br>bronze,[1] and is the sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John<br>the Divine in New York City.<br><br>Wyatt was born in Nyack, New York and raised in Grand View-on-Hudson, New York.<br>His father was William Stanley Wyatt, a painter and professor of fine arts at<br>Columbia University, Rockland Community College and the City College of New<br>York.[1] Greg Wyatt graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in<br>1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History.[1] He also attended the<br>National Academy of Design for three years, where he studied figurative<br>sculpture, and received his certificate in sculpture, and earned a master's<br>degree in Ceramic Arts from Columbia Teachers College in 1974. Wyatt has taught<br>at New York University and at Jersey City State College.[3][4] He is currently a<br>member of the Board of Directors at The American College of the Mediterranean in<br>Aix-en-Provence, France. He is also a member of the Board at Brookgreen Gardens.<br><br>Wyatt bases his work on the philosophy of "spiritual realism," merging realistic<br>images and abstract masses of form, space and energy.<br>Professor Sir Stanley Wells, a renowned Shakespearian scholar and emeritus<br>chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, says, "I compare Wyatt to Rodin.<br>He's that good."[6] "Wyatt emulates the sculpture of the western world with<br>contemporary vision."[3] His works have been exhibited at the Metropolitan<br>Museum of Art, Harvard University, and Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic<br>Site, among other institutions and collections,[5] and can be seen in more than<br>20 public spaces in cities from New York to Beijing.<br><br>Wyatt has made many corporate commissions, including a bronze statue of J.C.<br>Penney founder James Penney which weighs 3 tons and cost $250,000
