road trip     

Fred Smith, 1886 - 1976

He said "It's gotta be in ya to do it."

He had no formal art training but he felt he had to do this concrete thing "for the people." He never sold anything or did anywork on commission, he just wanted people to come and see what he made.
For more information take a look at
 Friends of Fred Smith

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And he created these for everyone to enjoy.
     + JB

Hans delivered kerosene and Red Crown gasoline.

...wearing the logo for the kerosene company, Red Crown. I like his determined look - and side burns.
     + JB

this one kind of looks like it belongs in a Wallace and Gromit episode.

appaently this sculpture was hoisted into place using a logging truck. It was the first monumental sculpture Fred Smith made - he is indeed standing tall in the world.

take your pick, current occupant of white house, or wisconsin governor's mansion, or substitute a politician of your choice!

celebration under way.

A ten-foot muskie (or perhaps a stand-in working on "Jaws").
     + JB

complete with fancy mane thingies...bottles...

...they went that-a-way...

...come between a mother bear and her cub.

...hauling beer barrels. This was Fred's last and most ambitious project, completed in 1964.