American sculptor George Grey Barnard was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Illinois before studying art in Paris. He received a commission in 1902 to produce sculptures for the new Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg and moved back to Paris to start work. Barnard’s sculptures–Love and Labor: The Unbroken Law and The Burden of Life: The Broken Law, flanking the front entryway–were unveiled in a public ceremony on October 4, 1911. The dedication ceremony was quite an affair, with an invocation by Barnard’s father, poem and song, a performance by the Commonwealth Band, an acceptance by Pennsylvania governor (and former Major Leaguer) John Tener, and an address by former Pennsylvania governor Samuel…