Talking about the prairie, my mind goes to Harvey Dunn, an American painters who masterpieces of prairie drawing. The most well-known paintings he has, is titled 'Prairie is my garden', showing a mother and two of her kids gathering flowers from the prairie (where it is said supposed to be in Great Plains).
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| Prairie is my garden (Harvey Dunn) |
As recognition for Harvey Dunn works, South Dakota Art museum in Brookings houses most of his best paintings. And it is a street dedicated
with his name in the town, a street that I used to pass every day during 3.4
years of dwelling in B-town. Once, I used to live in a house that my good friends
called a castle (see the pic), right in the corner of Harvey Dunn Street and 8th Avenue, just two
blocks from Wecota Hall, my office (not anymore). Well, my stay at that house, unfortunately, was my best time
in Brookings.
Recently,
the town park McCrory Garden which is just across of my old apartment at
Mills adds to collection a sculpture of Harvey Dunn well-known work 'prairie is
my garden'. Take a look. I love it. I think people in Brookings really know how
to cherish and prettify the 'simple' town in the prairie.
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| The sculpture in the garden (psttt ... I don't like the green basket in the background either) |
I wish I will come back to visit B-town, if I could (and if I want). Not
now, not soon, and won’t be in the very near future (I guess). Yet, I (still) want to
have a pic of the sculpture in a winter: a very cold and heavy winter.
Let see.
Let see.
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