LocationS. Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard & E. 35th St., Kansas City, MO |
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Artist/Designer: Steve Kline
Description:
This is an abstract sculpture comprised of a twisted steel tube which is attached to a steel dish which is 6-1/2′ in diameter. The tube is painted yellow, orange, red and blue. The steel tube is twisted and appears to represent a ribbon casually dropped on the ground. There are several small black steel shapes placed under the “ribbon of steel.” The dish which is attached to the ribbon is yellow.
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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