Artfully Agoura: Day's End

Ever notice the bronze frontier family, tucked within the Agoura Hills Corporate Center off Chesebro Road or the 14-foot statue of Chief White Eagle, standing on Mount Estrellaor? Artfully Agoura will feature those lesser known treasures, cloaked amidst the city's rich landscape.

If you have ever passed through Old Agoura from Chesebro Road, you have most likely driven past the bronze frontier family on the northeast corner of Agoura Road and Palo Comado Canyon.

Known as "Day's End," the six life-size figures sculpted by conservation artist Ramon Velazco, were commissioned and installed by the ADC Real Estate Group in the Agoura Hills Corporate Center in 2006, according to Agoura Hills public art consultant Michelle Isenberg.

"Since Agoura was a common location for travelers to stop for water, the artwork is intended to represent that time and place," Isenberg said.

Aside from being a stagecoach and freight wagon stop in the mid to late 1800's, early settlers introduced ranching and agriculture to the burgeoning community. Archeological research and early written history identify Agoura as "a place with water." In fact, Agoura had one of the only water wells in the area available to travelers. The settlers in Velazco's "Day's End" are sculpted returning from that reservoir. 

A snapshot of a day in the life of a local family, Velazco's bronze sculpture captures the true essence of the area and the time period it represents.