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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Minnesota -- Brainerd
     
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    Babe the Blue Ox, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Bowen, Jac T., 1917-1980, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Babe the Blue Ox, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1950. Installed 1965.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Fiberglass, painted.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 15 x 7 x 23 ft. (3,000 lbs.).
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    A large blue ox with black hooves, and yellow horns, set directly on ground.
    Subject: 
    Animal -- Cattle
    Literature -- Character -- Babe the Blue Ox
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Minnesota -- Brainerd
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Paul Bunyan Playground Association, Paul Bunyan Amusement Center, Park Manager, 1900 Fairview Road, Brainerd, Minnesota 56401
    Located Paul Bunyan Center, Highways 210 & 371, parking lot, Brainerd, Minnesota
    Remarks: 
    IAS files contain an excerpt from Karal Ann Marling's book entitled "The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway," 1984, pg. 14, and an article from the Kansas City Star, May 21, 1965, pg. 1-2, describing the transportation of the sculpture via railroad flat car from Kansas City where it was fabricated to its installation site in Brainerd, Minnesota. The trip involved five different railroads, making stops along the way starting with Missouri Pacific's yards in the industrial district of Kansas City, then Omaha, Nebraska, Rock Island, Illinois, and Northfield, Minnesota, with a special stopover in Des Moines, Iowa. Larry Lopp, the operator of the amusement park in Brainerd, commissioned the sculptor Jac T. Bowen to create the sculpture.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Minnesota survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Marling, Karal Ann, "The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway," 1984, pg. 14.
    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 MN000297
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