Creation Date

Sculpture creation date: 1988

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Color photograph of a tall dark metal sculpture on a concrete base beside a road, with thin vertical rods and projecting forms silhouetted against a clear blue sky and autumn trees. The photograph shows “Whitefield Heritage,” a kinetic weather vane sculpture by Roger L. Majorowicz, 1988, at Whitefield Elementary School in North Whitefield, Maine, rising prominently from a cast concrete foundation set in a grassy roadside area. The lower portion of the work consists of a sturdy vertical steel column supported by curved brackets, which houses wheels, gears, levers, and a tractor seat that reference the agricultural machinery central to the town’s past, though these details are partially obscured in this view. Above the midpoint, a large dark irregular area appears where the negative strip was punched. The upper section of the sculpture remains visible as an abstract weathervane composed of slender rods, circular and crescent shapes, and a long projecting blade that extends dramatically to the left. These futuristic forms are welded from cast iron, steel, stainless steel, and bronze, and are designed to turn with the wind, suggesting motion and the community’s future ambitions against the backdrop of a bright sky and a line of colorful autumn trees. 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

p17067

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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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