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This Beautiful Family Of Lions Look Adorable, The Mother Is At Piece While The Father Stand And Paces Back And Forth On The Look Out. The Mother Licks One Of Her Little Cubs While The Other One Rests On Her Lower Back. She Seems Very Comfortable And Loving With Her Own Kind. This Gorgeous Creatures Come Together As A Family And Wont Ever Leave The Unity. The Little Cub Resting On His Mothers Lower Back Follows In His Fathers Footsteps, Watching Out For Anything Out Of The Ordinary Coming Toward Them. This Sculpture Was Cast Using The "Lost Wax Method" And Is Mounted On A Oval Black Marble Base With The European Bronze Finery Stamp. "Snell Johnson certainly is talked about in very positive terms for his work as a post-modern and pop culture sculptor," said Robert Tracy, professor of art at UNLV. "His bronze lion outside the MGM is more acceptable as art than the MGM's old plaster lion. His bronze lion statue has ties with film history, evoking the majesty of Leo (the MGM lion)."   Johnson's more than 500 bronze lion works -- 350 of which are life-size lion statues -- include horses, American Indians and other human figures. His works have been purchased by former President Ronald Reagan, late cowboy film legend Roy Ro Lions have witnessed countless parades and been adorned with holly wreaths during the winter holidays and magnificent floral wreaths in springtime. They have been bedecked in top hats, graduation caps, Mets and Yankee caps, and more. They have been photographed alongside countless tourists, replicated as bookends, caricatured in cartoons, and illustrated in numerous children’s books. One even served as the hiding place for the cowardly lion in the motion picture The Wiz.   According to Henry Hope Reed in his book, The New York Public Library, about the architecture of  the Fifth Avenue building, the sculptor Edward Clark Potter obtained the commission for the lions on the recommendation of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of America's foremost sculptors. Potter was paid $8,000 for the modeling, and the Piccirilli Brothers executed the carving for $5,000, using pink Tennessee marble. After enduring almost a century of weather and pollution, in 2004 the lions were professionally cleaned and restored.