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Tilted Prairie, (sculpture). Artist:  Weese, Marcia, sculptor. Title:  Tilted Prairie, (sculpture). Dates:  1990.; Dedicated Oct. 8, 1992. Medium:  Sand, topsoil, indigenous prairie seed, crushed stone and limestone, surrounded by concrete wall. Dimensions:  Dimensions vary: rises in elevation from 0 to 8 ft.; Approx. Diam. 80 ft. Inscription:  (On top of wall:) A PRAIRIE NEVER RESTS FOR LONG, NOR DOES IT PERMIT ANYTHING ELSE TO REST./...A CLOUDY MORNING AND SMOKY ALL DAY FROM THE BURNING OF THE PLAINS WHICH WAS SET ON FIRE BY THE MINETAURRIES FOR AN EARLY CROP OF GRASS, AS AN INDUCEMENT FOR THE BUFFALO TO FEED ON. LEWIS & CLARK 1805/...THE TRAVELER UPON THE PRAIRIE CAN SCARCELY DIVEST HIMSELF OF THE IDEA THAT HE IS TRAVELING THROUGH SCENES EMBELLISHED BY THE HAND OF ART. ALL WAS ONCE GRASS. NARY TREE. THE SODBUSTER KILLED MOST OF THE TALL PRAIRIE DIRECTLY, WITH HIS BREAKING PLOW--AND JUST AS SURELY HE DESTROYED MUCH THE REST BY KILLING THE RED BUFFALO./...A FEW STEPS MORE, AND A BEAUTIFUL PRAIRIE SUDDENLY OPENED TO VIEW. WITH LONGER GAZE, ALL OF ITS DISTINCTIVE FEATURES WERE REVEALED, LYING IN PROFOUND REPOSE UNDER THE WARM LIGHT OF AN AFTERNOON'S SUMMER SUN. GEORGE FLOWER 1817/ IS IT NOT LIKELY THAT WHEN THE COUNTRY WAS NEW AND MEN WERE OFTEN ALONE IN THE FIELDS THEY GOT A SENSE OF BIGNESS OUTSIDE THEMSELVES THAT HAS NOW IN SOME WAY BEEN LOST? SHERWOOD ANDERSON I CAN REMEMBER OLD FELLOWS IN MY HOME TOWN SPEAKING FEELINGLY OF AN EVENING SPENT ON THE BIG EMPTY PLAINS. IT HAD TAKEN THE SHRILLNESS OUT OF THEM. THEY HAD LEARNED THE TRICK OF QUIET JOHN MADSEN LOREN EISELEY MARK TWAIN WILLA CATHER Description:  A circular tilted area of earth planted with prairie flowers and plants. The area is enclosed in a concrete wall which is level with the ground. The wall is sandblasted with quotes of explorers, authors and settlers. There is a crushed stone walkway around the wall and three limestone benches coming out from the wall. Subject:  Allegory -- Place -- Plains Abstract Literature -- Cather Literature -- Twain Literature -- Anderson Literature -- Flower Literature -- Madsen Literature -- Eiseley Object Type:  Earthwork Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Winthrop Harbor Sculpture Owner:  Administered by State of Illinois, Illinois Department of Conservation, 701 North Point Drive, P. O. Box 401, Winthrop Harbor, Illinois 60096 Located Illinois Beach State Park, North Point Marina, Winthrop Harbor, Illinois 60096 Remarks:  IAS files contain a copy of the artist's blueprint and statement about the piece. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Illinois survey, 1992. Illustration:  Image on file. 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 IL000322   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture IL000322 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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