Creation Date

Sculpture creation date: 1988

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Color photograph of a dark metal sculpture made of large circular frames, gears, and a tractor seat set beside a rural roadside. The photograph shows the lower section of “Whitefield Heritage,” a kinetic weather vane sculpture by Roger L. Majorowicz, 1988, at Whitefield Elementary School in North Whitefield, Maine. The visible portion consists of several overlapping steel rings and wheels of different diameters, linked by gears, levers, and braces, with a perforated metal tractor seat positioned near the center to evoke the agricultural machinery associated with the town’s past. These components, welded from cast iron, steel, stainless steel, and bronze and painted a uniform dark color, are arranged around a central vertical support that rises out of the frame toward a not-visible upper section composed of futuristic shapes that form the turning weathervane. Behind the sculpture, a two-lane road, grassy fields, and a line of trees create a rural backdrop that reinforces the work’s reference to Whitefield, Maine’s heritage and ongoing future. 1994. Unidentified, photographer. (See p16873-p16875, p17064-p17076)(NA4800.)

Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) (1990-1995) was a nationwide survey that ran from 1990-1995 documenting America’s outdoor sculpture. Established in 1990, SOS! helped educate local communities about America’s endangered sculptural heritage. The Maine Arts Commission was one of 106 organizations to participate in this survey.

Topic

Sculpture

Collection

MF161

Series Number

NA4800

Identifier

p17068

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Existence and Location of Originals

Located at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: AFC 2012/047 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013655211.

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