Father and Child, (1990) by John Wilson. Large sculpture
of a man and child reading. The African American sculptor
and artist was born in Roxbury in 1922, educated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, studied painting in Paris with Fernando Leger and during the early1950s studied fresco painting in Mexico City after the style of Jose Clemente
Orozco. Many of his graphic arts works display themes of despair, poverty and anger related to racial oppression. His later sculpture works "are more rounded in their quiet lyricism and represents a sense of hope rather than despair". From
1969 to 1986, Wilson was a professor of art at Boston University.

In 1985, Wilson created a bust of Martin Luther King for
the U.S. Capitol in Washington, currently the only bust of an African American on display there. In 1987 he created his most monumental work, Eternal Presence or Monumental Head, a 7-foot bronze head of a black person, located at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury. In 1985, he won the monument competition to create a sculpture at RCC. In creating the 7-foot bronze piece located here, Wilson was inspired by a print, which he made two decades earlier which presents the same theme of paternal caring.

History of Fort Hill, Pt.2. Mayor's Mural Crew, 2008.
New Mural painted in the parking lot of RCC. Picture
taken by one of the artists, Laura DeDonato. To see more pictures of the mural, vist http://lndstudio.blogspot.com/

Boston Youth Clean-up Corps (B.Y.C.C) Mural, 1999-2008. After being badly damaged, this mural was replaced
by the one above.