Photo: Boondock Saint — a carved statue of St. Francis in a meadow in Harpswell, Maine.

by Jack Brummet, Travel Ed.

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Lennin's red hand

Over the last couple of years, I've seen Lennin's hand in Fremont painted red more often than not.

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Donald Trump naked in Seattle, NYC, Cleveland, San Francisco, and L.A.

By Jack Brummet, Public Art Ed.

Photo via The Stranger  

A statue of a Donald J. Trump has been placed at the corner of 11th Avenue and Pike Street. The plaque reads: "The emperor has no balls."  

As it turns out, these statues now appear in San Francisco, Seattle, L.A., and Cleveland. The statues were created and deployed by the art activist group INDECLINE. Where next?

And when will the candidate freak out publicly about this?  Stay tuned. . .

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Vladimir Lenin's red hand

By Jack Brummet, Seattle Metro Ed.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's Red Hard, from the statue in Fremont (right across from my office) at Fremont Place and N. 35th Street.  The statue was constructed by a Slovak Bulgarian sculptor, Emil Venkov, under a commission from the Soviet and Czechoslovak governments.and was installed in 1988.  Unfortunately, the Soviet Union dismantled itself the following year, and a lot of Soviet artifacts ended up in the scrap heap.  A Seattle man found the 16 foot tall, seven ton sculpture face down, mortgaged his house, bought it, and moved it to Seattle.

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Oliver Voss's "Die Badende" a/k/a Hamburg water woman statue

By Jack Brummet, Visual Arts Editor

This (13 foot high and 98 foot long) statue of a woman is, or was, installed in Hamburg, Germany. Die Badende was created by the artist Oliver Voss.  I can't determine whether it is still there, or if the installation was just a temporary exhibition.  Pretty cool, in either case.  I like this.

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The Golden Driller—third largest statue in the United States

By Jack Brummet, Travel and Monuments Editor

The Golden Driller is a 76-foot-tall, 22 ton, statue of an oil worker, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  It is the third tallest statue in the United States, behind the Statue of Liberty, and Our Lady of the Rockies.
The Golden Driller was built in 1953 by the Mid-Continent Supply Company of Fort Worth for an International Petroleum Exposition. Six years later, it was erected again for a show. Due to the buzz it generated, the company donated the statue to the Tulsa County Fairgrounds  which had it permanently installed in front of the Tulsa Expo Center in 1966.  The statue's right hand rests on a decommissioned oil derrick from an oil field in Oklahoma.

The inscription  reads: "The Golden Driller, a symbol of the International Petroleum Exposition. Dedicated to the men of the petroleum industry who by their vision and daring have created from God's abundance a better life for mankind."  The driller is the official state monument of Oklahoma.

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The Jolly Green Giant Statue

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"The Valley of the Jolly [ho ho ho] Green Giant" is the Minnesota River valley around Le Sueur. In the city of Blue Earth, stands a statue of the Jolly Green Giant.  In 1978, Blue Earth paid $43,000 to build the 55 feet fiberglass statue of the Jolly Green Giant at the point where the east and west  sections of Interstate 90 linked up (I-90 runs from Seattle to the East Coast, and is the longest four lane highway in the United States).   It is one of the largest statues in the U.S.

Visitors can have their photo taken standing directly under the Green Giant. Blue Earth still has a canning plant formerly owned by Green Giant that continues to can corn and peas each summer.

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