The Corbin Arena – Corbin KY Tourism

You can meet Louisville sculptor Raymond Graf any day of the week in front of the Brown Hotel. He’ll be out there on the Fourth Street sidewalk with J. Graham Brown.Raymond Graf and his natural-science menagerie in the sculptor’s Clifton home studio.“The Brown Foundation had tons of photos of J. Graham Brown for me to work with, so re-creating his likeness was not hard,” says Graf. “But I noticed that in so many of the photos he had that little dog with him. You could tell he loved that dog. So we decided to include Woozem in the piece, and I think it worked out perfectly.”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. And it’s not Graf standing next to him, but Brown’s little dog Woozem. It’s the inclusion of Brown’s faithful friend that is the signature touch you get with a Raymond Graf sculpture: You find out more than how people look; you find out who they ar...