And it’s not Graf standing next to him, but Brown’s little dog Woozem. ”Well, it’s not actually Brown, but a remarkably accurate life-sized bronze statue of the famous Louisville hotelman in his characteristic 1940s felt hat and business suit. So we decided to include Woozem in the piece, and I think it worked out perfectly.
“But I noticed that in so many of the photos he had that little dog with him. Graham Brown for me to work with, so re-creating his likeness was not hard,” says Graf. “The Brown Foundation had tons of photos of J. Raymond Graf and his natural-science menagerie in the sculptor’s Clifton home studio. He’ll be out there on the Fourth Street sidewalk with J. You can meet Louisville sculptor Raymond Graf any day of the week in front of the Brown Hotel.
