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Life size dog statues bronze animal ... Best Quality yard winged hot cast menthod mountain lion ... Large natural roaring Hand carved mountain lion sculpture with ... "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 Rogers and former world heavyweight boxing champions George Foreman and Mike Tyson.   The MGM's "Grand Lion," created in 1997, is 45 feet tall, 50 feet wide and weighs 50 tons. It is said to be the largest bronze lion sculpture monument in the Western Hemisphere.   Johnson's other works include a bronze statue at the Stratosphere Tower and a massive horse and chariot at Caesars Gauteng, South Africa.   Johnson, a self-taught artist who is considered one of the most prolific bronze lion sculptors of his time, had to overcome considerable adversity to attain his fame.   Back to the lions … on April 28th, 1912 — 13 days after Titanic went to the bottom of the Atlantic — an article in The Washington Post stated that the lions had been successfully put in place after the memorial had been under construction for eight years. Eight years and only the lions were in place! Below is an excerpt from the piece. The fact that the lions are copies of the British lions on the Trafalgar Square monument in England and the sight of the flag stretched under their bodes have caused many tourists and other observers to wonder just what the motif of the group is intended to express. The Grant monument, when completed, will be a notable addition to those already adorning Washington’s parks and drives. Besides the main section, on which the lion group is situated, one section, composed of an artillery group, and other wing, now being completed, will be adorned by bronze cavalry group.