The Norfolk Community Association will place a sculpture by the late Ann Scoville somewhere between Town Hall and Station Place this year.
It will be the third installment along the Association’s planned sculpture trail.
Doreen Kelly, co-president of the Association, said last week that Scoville’s family donated the work. The figurative painter and sculptor, who died in 2014, grew up in Norfolk and moved to Salisbury in her later life after living in a variety of places in the United States and abroad.
At age 12, she began to paint and by the time she was 14 she was studying with the painter Guy Pène du Bois. In the 1970s, she started to sculpt, and her works found their way into private collections, museums and public spaces, from the American Embassy in Moscow to the walls of the Warner Theatre in Torrington.
Ultimately, the association plans to install a sculpture in City Meadow, but Kelly said nothing is planned for this year because work in the meadow is still in progress. The sculpture finally placed there will need to be an attraction to draw people into the natural habitat. “I would love to see something big there,” she said. “And it must be visible from [from Robertson Plaza], so people will say, ‘Oh, I want to go see it.’”