The story of those baby heads on the MFA lawn

Two monumental baby-head sculptures adorn Boston’s linked landscape as they rest on the Fenway entrance lawn of the Museum of Fine Arts. Presiding over the Fenway section of Fredrick Law Olmsted’s metaphorical emerald necklace, the baby heads’ ephemeral, innocent countenances encourage full-spectrum consideration of potential role-reversal relationships between parent and child, teacher and student, servant and master. Their overwhelming presence symbolically links our humanity, defying gender, language, and religion while transcending time.