Monument to the Ice Age, Blue Rapids, Kansas

Dave Loewenstein, artist

born 1966

Monument to the Ice Age, Blue Rapids, Kansas, 2024

Portfolio/Series title: Erratics

Where object was made: Kansas, United States

Material/technique: spray paint; stenciling; bristol board

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 55.88 x 38.1 cm
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 81.28 x 60.96 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Barbara Benton Wescoe Fund

Accession number: 2025.0013.08

On display: Marshall Balcony

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In’zhúje’waxóbe: Return of the Sacred Red Rock

This artwork is part of Dave Loewenstein’s series Erratics, which refers to glacial erratics, or rocks that are carried hundreds of miles away from their original locations by glaciers. During the last ice age, glaciers pushed red quartzite boulders from present-day South Dakota southward, depositing rocks of various sizes along their path ending in northeastern Kansas and northwestern Missouri. This artwork features a monument created about the glaciers and glacial erratics in Blue Rapids, Kansas.