Area art in ‘8 Wonders’ competition
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Voting continues for categories in the Kansas Sampler Foundation’s 8 Wonders of Kansas.
The foundation released the finalists of the 8 Wonders of Kansas Art category. One finalist in this category is Post Office Section Art. Post Office Section Art still exists in several post offices around Kansas. Before and after the depression, artists were paid by the federal government to decorate public buildings such as post offices.
Local post offices with Section Art include:
• Council Grove, Autumn Colors by Charles B. Rogers, 1941, oil on canvas
• Eureka, Cattle Roundup by Vance Kirkland, 1938, oil on canvas
• Burlington, Boy and Colt by Robert Kittredge, 1942, stone
The finalists are:
• Thomas Hart Benton’s Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence
• Blue Sky Sculpture, Newton
• Boyer Museum of Animated Carvings, Belleville
• Buffalo Bill Bronze Sculpture, Oakley
• Martin Bush Outdoor Sculpture, Wichita Art Museum
• John Steuart Curry Mural, State Capitol, Topeka
• Davis Memorial, Hiawatha
• Dreamers Awake sculpture, Wichita Art Museum
• Pete Felten Stone Sculptures, Hays
• Garden of Eden/Lucas, Grassroots Art Mecca
• Stan Herd Earthworks, Atchison and Lawrence
• Justice Statue, Kansas Judicial Center, Topeka
• Kansas Art Collection, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan
• Keeper of the Plains, Wichita
• Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton, Wellsville
• M.T. Liggett’s Metal Sculptures, Mullinville
• Gordon Parks, Fort Scott
• Post office section art, statewide
• Red Barn Studio, Lindsborg
• St. Mary’s Catholic Church, St. Benedict
• Birger Sandzen, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg
• Do-Ho Suh’s Some/One, Newman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park
• Tiffany Windows, First Presbyterian Church, Topeka
• Wichita High School North exterior paintings
Public voting will determine the top eight. People can vote online at 8wonders.org or call (620) 585-2374 for a ballot or pick up a ballot at finalists that have an office. Voting will run through Oct. 15. The top eight will be announced on Oct. 31.