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Corridor Entrance off Rotunda:

Kansas Pastoral

In this comparatively quiet corridor is portrayed Kansas in the time of fruitful harvest.

In color and tone, and their unlimited possibilities of expression, will be portrayed the overpowering sensuousness of the land at sunset and in its time of abundant harvest. 

On the north wall (22' x 11'6") are two spaces portraying the industry of the oil fields. 

Here are shown the oil rig and refinery which again demonstrate the trmendous resources of the state.  On the west wall stand the ten-foot figures of the young farmers, his wife and children, and back of them the ideal unmortgaged farm home - back of that the night and evening sky. 

On the long wall to the south (29' x 11'6") a great reach of the Kansas landscape.  In the foreground the Hereford bull, wheat field, feeding steers and hogs, a grain elevator, doves in osage orange trees.  Behind all these are fields of corn and grain running back tothe distant hill and the setting sun framed by the great turreted cloud to the north. 

I have been accused of seeing only the dark and seamy side of my native state.  In these panels I shall show the beauty of real things under the hand of a beneficent Nature - and we can suppose in these panels that the farm depicted is unmortgaged - that grain and cattle prices are rising on the Kansas City and Chicago markets - so that we as farmers, patrons, and artists can shout happily together, "Ad Astra Per Aspera."

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