Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Lovers of beloved P-22, aka the Hollywood Cat, are readying his final close-up, a life-sized sculpture of the world famous mountain lion made of bronze.
The popular cougar who crossed two freeways and made L.A.’s Griffith Park his unlikely home for 10 years, and lived amidst 10 million yearly visitors before he died in December 2022, will be memorialized in a bronze statue at the hands of Los Angeles-based artist Adam Matano.
The cost of the sculpture is upwards of $250,000, said Gerry Hans, president of Friends of Griffith Park . The Friends of Griffith Park, #SaveLAcougars.org and The National Wildlife Federation, are footing the bill and seeking sponsors and donations.
Matano’s conceptual designs depict the peripatetic cougar stepping down from a rectangular base onto the ground.
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