{"id":83,"date":"2008-05-19T09:24:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/05\/19\/an-art-project-for-rachel-and\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T09:24:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:24:40","slug":"an-art-project-for-rachel-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/05\/19\/an-art-project-for-rachel-and\/","title":{"rendered":"An Art Project for Rachel and Grandpa Butch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago Rachel stayed over on a Thursday.  Usually she stays on the weekend so this was something special.  It also happened to be free day at the Museum of Art.  We thought we would take a look and of all the artwork displayed there, the one that impressed her the most was a small scale, multimedia mural by Dick Pinney called &#8220;Where Have You Been, It&#8217;s Almost Dark?&#8221; Here is what it looked like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Where Have You Been, It's Almost Dark\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/91_1_27_Pinney_3Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"546\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the part that Rachel said was her favorite detail&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Detail from Where Have You Been, It's Almost Dark\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/91_1_27_Pinney_LL-QuadDetailWeb.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This last weekend Rachel stayed again.  I asked her if she would like to undertake an art project.  I had done a little research and I had discovered that there are at least a dozen Dick Pinney murals in the Cedar Rapids area.  I wondered if she would like to go and visit each of them, take a picture, and put together a little scrapbook.  She said she would so the first place we visited after seeing the one at the Art Museum was at the Eastern Iowa Airport.  It was completed about 1991 and was called Flight Aviation in Cedar Rapids.  Pam, at the airport, told me that piece of art cost $10,000 in its day.  Here&#8217;s a look at this one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rachel and the Airport Mural\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/Dick-Pinney-CR-Airport-1Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here are a couple of closer views.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Airport Mural Close Up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/Dick-Pinney---CR-Airport-2Web2.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"554\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the weeks to come we will visit more of his artworks and keep you posted here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago Rachel stayed over on a Thursday. Usually she stays on the weekend so this was something special. It also happened to be free day at the Museum of Art. We thought we would take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/05\/19\/an-art-project-for-rachel-and\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}