My favorite on the day I visited last fall was Peter Woytuk’s bronze and weathered stone sculpture:  Stone Bench with Great Raven. 

Peter Woytuk, called “the greatest animal sculptor of the Western world in the closing years of the 20th century” by the International Herald Tribune, has developed over the years a fascination with sculpting various forms of animals—birds in particular. Featured in this bench is one of his most frequently depicted subjects, the raven. The artist’s impressionistic approach demonstrates the bird’s remarkable liveliness. “I’ve done some research on them,” he says. “They spend a good 90 percent of their lives playing because they’re so adept at survival.”  Woytuk’s ravens, totaling over 50 individual sculptures, reveal their inquisitive, mischievous nature. In the tradition of historical animal sculptors, Woytuk has chosen to keep his bronze editions small, usually limited to just eight castings.

UK Art Museum