December 21, 2011

Wordless Wednesday: Cornhusker

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Cornhusker.
Cast in bronze in 2001 from a 1941 plaster maquette.

If you're in Nebraska, you may think this piece is somewhere located somewhere in the Cornhusker state – but it isn't!

It is on display in the Anderson Sculpture Garden at Iowa State University in Ames. Well-known artist Christian Petersen created the original plaster maquette. Many of Petersen's artworks depict rural life.

A description of the Cornhusker noted that the inspiration came to Petersen on a bright October fall day near Nevada, Iowa, where spectators at a corn-husking contest watched Marion Link move rhythmically up and down the rows to win the contest, carry him on to the state championship and runner-up in the national competition.

The description said he is shown just as he looked that afternoon, shearing cob of stalk and husk off cob, then tossing the yellow ears off the sideboard and into the wagon in "a symphony of percussion."

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