[TheForge] need help on a project

[dann at wctatel.net]

Mike,

Nice pictures.  Those trees have really grown since I was a student
majoring in Happy Hour.

Thanks for finding the big photo.  Still it does look a lot like Calder's
Big Sail.  Maybe he imitated Roger Johnson <grins>.

I never remembered the fountain spraying.  Guess by the time it is warm
enough in the Spring to turn the fountain on,  classes were pretty much
over.  Seems to me that classes didn't start in the fall until about the
2nd week of September, and October can be pretty cool.

Dann
>
>
>> The Big Sail scupture reminded me of one that Mankato State
>> University bought / installed about 1973.  When I looked it up, I
>> see that now it is the center of a large water fountain.
>>
>> I wonder if it was Calder the Artist, or kind of a Calder imitator
>> that did the one in Mankato.
>
> Apparently not Calder:
>
>     The fountain, design of which came from part of the New York City
>     World Fair (1965), was installed in 1969. It was designed to
>     create a spiral effect with stationary water jets. The sculpture
>     in the fountain was not originally part of the work. The
>     sculpture, by Roger Johnson, a former faculty member in the Art
>     Department, was added in 1975
>
>
>     http://www.mnsu.edu/facilities/landmarks.html
>
> Bigger pic at:
>
>     http://www.mnsu.edu/facilities/images/big_buildings/fountain.jpg
>
> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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