O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center Magazine Spring 2020 | Page 37

Artists William and Kelly Colburn teamed up to realistically portray the O’Neal family’s symbolic magnolia tree, which was constructed using steel
materials from O’Neal Steel itself.
DIFFICULTAS NE DETERREM:
O’NEAL STEEL’S MAGNOLIA TREE JOINS
CANCER CENTER AS ART INSTALLATION
When plans for a new road threatened a magnolia tree
outside Birmingham’s O’Neal Steel in 1975, the company
decided to save it. Now, decades later, the tree survives both
outside the company’s new office building and inside the
O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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