Einar (and Cindy, now and then)
My blogs
| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Librarian |
| Location | Dixon, New Mexico, United States |
| Introduction | It was probably about 20 years ago when I ran into my first Madonna of the Trail statue. I believe that it was in, or near, Springfield, Ohio. Learning that it was just one of eleven castings of the same work peaked my interest and before I knew it I was hooked on Pioneer Women statues. Later I was to find other, less obvious representations of Pioneer Women in a variety of architectural settings, mostly in friezes. Then when I started looking at them as a genre it dawned on my that many, perhaps most of them were produced in a fairly narrow time frame, from about 1927 to perhaps a decade later. This in turn raised more questions than it answered, and the hunt was on. A hunt that was soon to take me to Ponca City, Oklahoma, USA. There I discovered not only the world's largest bronze Pioner Woman (or so it seemed to me) but the wonderful Pioneer Women Museum right next to it. The next stop after that, not too far away by Western standards (three states away if one was in New England) was the Woolaroc Museum that held all the . . . ... but look, I am getting ahead of my self. All will be revealed as the blog grows. eeeeek |
| Interests | architectural sculpture , art history, photography, stargazing, sculpture, old books, history, angels, pioneer women, |
| Favorite movies | Usually the last one I saw. VV won't let us watch movies where folks are mean to each other, so it is a pretty low key list. |
| Favorite music | R&R from the 50s and 60s, the Pathetics (my band-or rather, the one I play in), any classical composer whose name begins with a B, anything played on Omar's Dance Party on KLDK |
| Favorite books | typically art history and mostly I loook at the pictures. |