Saginaw Grant, (sculpture).

Saginaw Grant, (sculpture).

Herd, Stan, sculptor.

Saginaw Grant, (sculpture).

Native Ground, (sculpture).

Wheat and earth.

Approx. 25 to 30 acres.

A crop art bust of Saginaw Grant of Cushing, Oklahoma, of the Sauk & Fox Tribe, in proper left profile, etched from wheat stubble in a large farm field. He wears a headband which has four narrow feathers on the left and six larger feathers on the right. A star surrounded by a circle hangs from his proper left ear.

Portrait male -- Grant, Saginaw -- Bust

Ethnic -- Indian -- Sauk & Fox

Dress -- Ethnic -- Indian Dress

Outdoor Sculpture

Formerly located Courtney, Harland, Farm field 20 miles north of Lawrence, Lawrence, Kansas

The bust was etched out of wheat stubble in July, 1988, and plowed up in November. The artist used a mower, a disc, and a two-bladed tractor "like different pencils" to give the image its complexity. For related articles see: The New York Times, Nov. 20, 1988; Reader's Digest (May 1989); National Wildlife (June/July 1989); Fine Gardening (Sept./Oct. 1989); and, The Furrow (Feb. 1990). For additional information see Stan Herd's "Crop Art and Other Earthworks,"New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994. The photograph in IAS files was taken in 1988.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas survey, 1995.

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