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Van Gogh to the Max
Written by: Susan White - The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego, California, USA
6/18/2007
The 37th day of our six-week trip across America turned out to be a day of nonstop beauty. Not the typical forests or oceans or mountain peaks kind of beauty, but the sweeping gold and green landscape of middle America, with the sky arching over us like a giant dome filled with light, color and movement.
Distant towns nestled in large clusters of trees, each topped with a grain elevator and a church steeple.
The last of those towns was Goodland, home of the largest grain elevator we've ever seen and a 24-foot by 32-foot reproduction of Van Gogh's "Three Sunflowers in a Vase" (Kansas, remember, is the Sunflower State), propped up on an 80-foot tall easel. The local Rotary Club has even installed a couple benches in front of the Van Gogh, which is framed on the right by the Goodland water tower and Bill's Shootin' Shop and on the left by a Pizza Hut and a Dollar General Store.
Turns out the Van Gogh was painted by Cameron Cross, an artist and former high school art teacher from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It's the third in a series of seven Van Gogh sunflower paintings Cross intends to reproduce and position throughout the world. (The first is in Altona, Canada, and the second in Emerald, Australia.)
www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/seeking/2007/06/van_gogh_to_the_max.html
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