National Center for Food Safety Building reliefs - Summit-Argo,IL - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

From the National Center for Food Safety and Technology website at
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"The main building features bas relief murals created by renowned architectural scupltor Lee Lawrie (1877-1963), who is best known for his towering figure of Atlas in front of New York’s Rockefeller Center. The panels depict various scenes of the history of corn and corn production in the Americas, including a buffalo hunt showing primitive corn grass, Native Americans cultivating and harvesting corn, and American corn milling and processing. One panel, labeled "Argo," appears to be symbolic of the Moffett Technical Center itself, showing an engineer working in the pilot plant, a chemist with retorts and test tubes, and a scientist at a microscope."

The building was donated to the Center by the nearby Corn Products company, which explains the reason for the panels being on the building. Pretty cool art deco out in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago!

Your impression of the sculpture?: Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 01/01/1948 Website for sculpture?: [Web Link] Where is this sculpture?: 6502 South Archer Road Summit-Argo, IL USA Sculptors Name: Lee Lawrie

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