Fall, Cumulus

Object NamePastel

Artist / Maker Ellen Wagener (American, b. 1964)

Date2006

MediumPastel on mounted paper

Dimensions41 × 60 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (104.1 × 153.7 × 4.4 cm)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LinePurchased by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences with partial funding from Charles Persinger. In the Art on Campus Collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

Object numberU2012.22

Status

On view

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Label TextHuge luminescent clouds decorate this eastern sky bathed in the light of a late afternoon sun. Elaborately structured, these fair weather cumulus clouds formed by rising thermal illustrate a quintessential Midwestern sky that dwarfs the land below. This seemingly endless expanse of sky is so unique to the Midwest. Nowhere else has sky like this, rolling out over the prairie with nothing to impede or obstruct the advancing clouds. Here, Wagener celebrates the paradox that there is unparalleled beauty in the ordinary.

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