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Don Drumm conceived of this work as a large abstract shape, floating above the ground, supported by five legs. He created the sculpture using an oxy-acetylene torch to weld the form and to enhance its surface with fused bronze. Drumm gave the sculpture as a gift to Louis Myers, who provided the artist with useful equipment free of charge. Myers owned Myers Industries and displayed the work at his company’s headquarters in Akron before his wife Mary S. Myers eventually donated it to the Akron Art Museum in 2006. Though the sculpture is formally untitled, in conversations with Drumm and the Myers family around the time of its donation, it was referred to affectionately as the “Bronze Horse” or the “Five-Legged Beastie.”

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