Nikos Sofialakis Cretan painter, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, which was set at Freedom Square (now Domenikos Theotokopoulos Square) in Herakleion, Crete on July 6, 1949. It was not until the 1952 Pan-Hellenic Artists Exhibition at the Zappeion, however, that Sofialakis received his ‘big break’, participating with the pieces "Twins", "Satyr", "Penelope", and "Maternity". His marble bust, "Twins", was already well known owing to its distinction at the 1947 Cairo Biennale, and his heads "Satyr" and "Penelope" received extensive praise, in both, the domestic and foreign press. It was owing to his masterpiece "Maternity", however, that Sofialakis received his great opportunity: the natural-scale statue in
And Her Name Was Maud local stock farm. Dr. Wayne T. Robinson has claimed to be the original painter of the Liberty Mule: "In early October 1906, I climbed up the face of the Allen Bluff to a ledge and with some coal tar made a flat picture of a character from a famous comic strip of that day. Everybody remembers Maud, the mule. That was 51 years ago, and even though it has been exposed to the elements and to nearby earth-shaking explosions, erosion has dimmed it very little." By this account, Dr. Robinson painted the original mule while a 21-year-old college student inspired