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    		• Dill, Guy Girard,
     
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    		• Meese-Peterson & Foss,
     
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    		• Abstract -- Geometric
     
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    		• Object -- Tool
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- South Dakota -- Huron
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Hoe-Down, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Dill, Guy Girard, 1946- , sculptor.
    Meese-Peterson & Foss, architectural firm.
    Title: 
    Hoe-Down, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1979. Copyrighted July 1979.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: painted sheet steel and Douglas fir logs or telephone poles; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 77 x 86 x 470 in.; Base: approx. 6 x 144 x 576 in.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    Abstract depiction of garden hoes.
    Subject: 
    Abstract -- Geometric
    Object -- Tool -- Hoe
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- South Dakota -- Huron
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Coadministered by United States General Services Administration, Washington, District of Columbia
    Coadministered by United States General Services Administration, 115 4th Avenue S.W., P. O. Box 19, Aberdeen, South Dakota 57402
    Located Federal Building, 200 4th Street S.W., Huron, South Dakota
    Remarks: 
    Commissioned by the General Services Administration, through its Art-in-Architecture program. Cost: $25,000. IAS files contain newspaper articles from the Huron Daily Plainsman (Huron, SD), July 6, 1979, pg. 2, Sept. 7, 1979, and Sept. 9, 1979; Aberdeen American News (Aberdeen, SD), Aug. 7, 1979, pg. 2, and Oct. 10, 1979, pg. 27; and Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, SD), Aug. 8, 1979, pg. 8A, Sept. 8, 1979, and Oct. 27, 1980. Most of the articles discuss displeasure within the community for both the commissioning process and the use of public funds for the sculpture. For related articles see: Huron Daily Plainsman (Huron, SD), July 31, 1979, Aug. 10, 1979, Aug. 11, 1979, Aug. 26, 1979, Aug. 29, 1979, Sept. 12, 1979, Oct. 10, 1979, and Nov. 11, 1980; Brookings Register (Brookings, SD), Sept. 10, 1979, and Sept. 13, 1979; Aberdeen American News (Aberdeen, SD), Nov. 11, 1980, Nov. 23, 1980, and Dec. 9, 1980; and Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, SD), Sept. 27, 1980, and Nov. 12, 1980.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, South Dakota survey, 1993.
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
    General Services Administration, 1984.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Huron Daily Plainsman (Huron, SD), July 6, 1979, pg. 2.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS 75002843
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