Sketch for a proposed monument outside the United Nations Headquarters, New York.
In the late 1940s, Carl Milles created a sketch of a sculpture featuring God the Father standing on a rainbow, placing stars in the sky—or perhaps removing them? At the base of the rainbow, a small angel tosses the stars up to God, one by one.
Originally envisioned as a fountain to be placed in front of the UN building in New York, the sculpture was never realized in that location. In 1995, one of Milles' former students, Marshall Fredericks, scaled up the design and completed the full-size fountain at Nacka Strand, just outside Stockholm. There, the arching water jets help form the illusion of a semicircular rainbow. At the very top of the arc stands God the Father.