Sculpture created in memory of The Rocket
Artist: Michel Dusablon, 2000 |
Celebrity, National Figure, Icon
By the time of his passing in 2000, The Rocket has become a subject
for painters and sculptors across Canada, his image carrying symbolic
weight beyond his having been - as he used to insist - "just
a hockey player".
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"Maurice and Gordie"
Artist: Michael Davey, 2000
Sandblasted into each side of a black granite puck are the parts of
the body - eye and elbow - associated with two rival hockey heroes:
Maurice Richard and Gordie Howe. On one level, the artwork portrays
their different playing styles as "two sides of the same puck"; on
another, it represents the dialectic between French and English Canada. |
Photo: Stéphane Juteau
In 1999, a gold puck is presented to The Rocket at a gala celebrating
the launch of a TV movie of his life. |
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