Curious Louisville

When Donna Finnell was working downtown in the late 1970s, she spent a lot of lunch breaks walking around on the Belvedere. She especially liked to visit a small statue nestled in the landscaping there — a delicate bronze figure of the Greek god Pan. He was shown bending towards the ground, playing a flute. Ashlie Stevens Pan. Eventually, she got a different job, and when she visited the Belvedere again years later, Pan was gone. So she asked Curious Louisville: What happened to it? When I first saw this question, I thought it would be a relatively easy one to answer. A quick Google search revealed the Belvedere Pan statue, as seen in the photo above, had been created by Charlotte Price (and cast by Louisville’s Barney Bright). LVA/Submitted Charlotte Price and Louisville sculptor Ed Hamilton. I pulled out the city’s directory of public art, scanned for “Pan” and “Price” — and that’s when the story became more complicated. Check it out in the player above. You can also download this story, and subscribe to Cu