General Service Enterprise
Cosmic Seed
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The black, stainless steel
structure in front of the Wallace building is the creation of
Ronald Bladen of New York City. Bladen, a noted minimalist, was
chosen to design a monument complementing the new state agricultural
building. Funding for the $60,000 project came from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the state, under the same legislation
that financed Utterback's "Five Stones--One Tree."
Bladen worked for three years on the 17,000-pound, 24-foot-high
and 20-foot-wide sculpture. He described its relationship to
agriculture as philosophical rather than direct; a simple statement
of the basic and solid importance of agriculture to Iowans and
all peoples throughout the world. |
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