Little Glenn, Bronze sculpture in downtown Toronto, Canada.
Little Glenn depicts a young working-class boy pulling a large stone obelisk with the phrase 'To serve and protect' carved into its surface.
Eldon Garnet made Little Glenn in 1988 as one of three human-size sculptures placed around the Metro Toronto Police Headquarters. The bronze figure pulls a 22-foot stone obelisk in a four-wheeled cart, and the obelisk carries the Toronto police motto "To serve and protect."
The obelisk in the boy's cart carries the words "To serve and protect", the motto of the Toronto police force, so the work sets a labouring child against the institution's own slogan. It stands in front of the Metro Toronto Police Headquarters at Bay and Grenville, one of three human-size Garnet sculptures placed around the station in 1988.
Located at the intersection of Bay and Grenville streets, the bronze sculpture remains accessible year-round for public viewing in Toronto's downtown core.
The sculpture combines labor symbolism with police mottos, creating a complex dialogue between individual effort and institutional service that challenges traditional commemorative art.
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