Tillamook Cheese Wheel, (sculpture).

Tillamook Cheese Wheel, (sculpture).

Widmer, George, sculptor.

Tillamook Cheese Wheel, (sculpture).

Painted fiberglass over plywood.

Approx. H. 5 ft. x Diam. 16 ft.

("Tillamook" is painted repeatedly vertically around the edge of the sculpture)

Sculpture depicts a cheese wheel with a wedge missing. The sculpture is painted and stenciled.

Abstract -- Geometric

Object -- Foodstuff -- Cheese

Outdoor Sculpture -- Oregon -- Tillamook

Administered by Tillamook County Fair, P. O. Box 455, Tillamook, Oregon 97141

Located Tillamook County Fairgrounds, Entrance, Tillamook, Oregon

Sculpture replaces an earlier plywood wheel made in the early 1950s by Paul Parker, Gaylon Gerard and Clair Edner. IAS files contain related March 29, 1993 correspondence from the Tillamook County Fair office.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Oregon survey, 1993.

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