Cancer, There Is Hope

Sculpture by Victor Salmones

29°43′24″N 95°23′26″W / 29.72339°N 95.390457°W / 29.72339; -95.390457

Cancer, There Is Hope is a bronze sculpture by Victor Salmones, formerly installed in Houston, Texas, United States. It was cast in 1990, shortly after the artist's death, and was dedicated on May 16, 1993. The sculpture was presented to the City of Houston by the Richard and Annette Bloch Foundation.^[1]

There are plans to remove the sculpture, as of 2021, because of vandalism beyond repair.^[2]

References

^ "Cancer, There Is Hope". City of Houston. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
^ "Ask 2: What happened to the "Cancer, There is Hope" statue at Hermann Park?". 18 August 2021.

Public art in Houston

Works

African Elephant
Alexander Hodge Memorial
Atropos Key
Beer Can House
Broken Obelisk
Brownie
Bygones
Cancer, There Is Hope
Charlotte Allen Fountain
Charmstone
Cloud Column
George H. W. Bush Monument
Inversion
Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2)
Lillian Schnitzer Fountain
Monument au Fantôme
Oliver Twist
The Orange Show
Pioneer Memorial
Points of View
Radiant Fountains
Scanlan Fountain
Sam Houston Monument
Spirit of the Confederacy
Statue of Christopher Columbus
Statue of George H. Hermann
Statue of Richard W. Dowling
Tolerance
Virtuoso
World War I Monument
World War II Memorial

Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden	Adam Arch Falls The Back Series Big Twist Conversation with the Wind The Crab Cybele The Dance Decanter Exhaling Pearls Flora, Nude Gymnast II Houston Triptych The Large Horse Large Standing Woman I New Forms The Pilgrim Quarantania I Recuerdo de Machu Picchu 3 (Las terrazas) The Sound of Night The Spirit of Eternal Repose Two Circle Sentinel The Walking Man Untitled (Shapiro, 1990)
McGovern Centennial Gardens	Bust of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Bust of Benito Juárez Bust of Bernardo O'Higgins Bust of José de San Martín Bust of José Martí Bust of José Rizal Bust of Ramón Castilla Bust of Robert Burns Bust of Simón Bolívar Bust of Vicente Rocafuerte Dawn Statue of Confucius Statue of Mahatma Gandhi Statue of Martin Luther King Jr.

Lillie and Hugh Roy
Cullen Sculpture Garden