WILD GOOSE Millard Sheets WORD Of LIFE Notre Dame Hesburgh Library JESUS Plaque

  

Millard Sheets WORD Of LIFE Notre Dame Hesburgh Library JESUS Plaque. Please check all the photos for best representation of items condition and measurements 8" x 6" x ½. When the Hesburgh Library opened, its most distinctive exterior feature, the "Word of Life" mural, had not yet been installed.

The artist Millard Sheets was commissioned to create a work large enough to cover the southern face of the tower, visible from the football stadium. Its theme was to be saints and scholars throughout the ages; this was suggested by the library's namesake, Rev.