Sunday, June 14, 2015

Wildlife update for today:  several deer, one coyote loping across the road, and one ruffled grouse.

Before we left Phillips where we had spent the night and attended the car show, we backtracked a couple of miles to Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park.  This is an open air museum of sculpture built by artist Fred Smith, born in 1886.  He was a lumberjack beginning in his teens and after retirement taught himself to construct life size concrete sculptures to tell stories about life in northern Wisconsin and to represent other historical 
moments.  He created over 200 statues that surround his home and tavern.  He constructed a one foot footer and used chicken wire to form the body of his figures.  Arms and Hands were constructed separated and attached.  Concrete filled the wire and he used broken bits of glass, mirror and other "found" objects to create his folk art figures.


Indian woman made of concrete, broken glass and pebbles.




 Bucking horse and many of his men sculptures.


An eagle, indian and fish behind the tree.

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