University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 13. 1992
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Local artist designs statue for world exhibit
By Chris Jenson Kansan staff writer
A portion of Kansas City's exhibit at Expo '92 in Seville, Spain, is being created in Lawrence.
A Lawrence artist, Jim Brothers, will produce a scaled reproduction of the statue "The Scout."
Carolyn Stockwell, exhibit chief design for Expo '92, said Brothers was chosen to reproduce the statue because of his work with the Parks and Recreation Department of Kansas City Mo., and the reputation of Heartland Art Bronze of Lawrence. The statue is being cast at Heartland by a team of artists including Frank Shonen.
Expo '92 will be the next world's fair, which occur every 10 years. The expo will run from April 20 to Oct. 12.
Stockwell said "The Scout" statue was chosen because it was distinctive.
The statue of a Sioux scout on horseback returning from a hunting trip sits in Penn Valley Park at Karson and Pennsylvania streets in Kansas City, M. Cyrus Dallin
The statue came to Kansas City temporarily. But residents became attached to it and the city purchased it.
designed the statue for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.
"The Scout' has been a hallmark statue in Kansas City for a long time," Stockwell said.
She said the Expo'92 committee also was pleased that the statue had a connection to local American Indian tribes.
Brothers said the reproduction would be half the size of the original, which stands 10 feet 3 inches.
When he first was approached about creating the statue in December, Brothers said he declined because it was a reproduction.
"I would prefer to do my own work," Brothers said. "But they decided to give me some freedom with it and they are allowing me to take my own work to the Expo, so it worked out."
Brothers said he changed the statue, mostly by adding details and texture to enhance the beauty of the bronze. He also
altered the American Indian's face to make it less stoic.
Brothers, who was a teaching assistant in sculpture at the University of Kansas in 1969, said four of his original pieces had been chosen for the Kansas City display at the expand and another was being considered. The pieces depict the American West.
"I was pleased that they picked me for the project," he said. "It's also nice to have something of my own in the show at the same time."
Creating bronze statues is an involved process, Brothers said.
"There are five phases of production starting with a clay model and ending with the bronze," he said.
Brothers said he worked 16 to 20 hours a day for six weeks to prepare the statue for bronze casting. The statue will be completed by March 1 and will be in Seville on March 15.
Now that the first phase of the project is complete, Brothers has begun creating a statue of Mark Twain for Hannibal, Mo.
Lawrence artist Frank Shopen aligns a piece of the half-sized replica of "The Scout" statue.
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