"Visions of Man" probes the question "What is Man?" The sculptures made from aluminum were commissioned by the Trustees of the R.S. Reynolds Memorial.

For all his conquests, man still remains a creature of awe. He feels that there is meaning beyond himself-that the question, What is man?, cannot be answered in terms of man alone.

" The upward thrust of the forms is intended as an invocation, a reverence for life, and the thinner curvilinear strands…metaphorically suggest the mantle, drape or veil which are symbolic of both honor and humility." - Theodore Roszak

1957, Longaker, Jon D., "The New Materials in a New Sculpture", Art in Richmond.