Looking up and northwest at the front of the statue "Aspiration and Literature", one of two statues that make up the work "The Arts of Peace". "The Arts of Peace" are statues which adorn either side of the southern entrance of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway in Washington, D.C., in the United States. They were designed by sculptor James Earle Fraser, and erected in 1951. The centerpiece of each statue in "The Arts of Peace" is the mythical winged horse Pegasus, the source of inspiratio and poetry. On "Aspiration and Literature", a nude man holding an open book in his trailing arm stands on Pegasus' right, symbolic of literature.