Outsider art, or just another crazy roadside attraction out on the central Plains? You be the judge, and let us know what you know about this contraption, and who created it, in an e-mail to ColoradoSunday@denverpost.com. Include a digital photo of yourself, and don’t forget to include your hometown in the message. Our favorite wins a $50 gas card.
How’d you know?
Last week: La-To-Kah wall art, Cripple Creek
Winner: Reed family archivist Stan Oliner, Denver
This wall art was created and installed in 1995 at Cripple Creek under the historic preservation program headed by Brian Levine, now of Crested Butte. It celebrates the 1890s novel by Verner Z. Reed who came to Colorado in 1885. He sold Colorado Springs land plots on the installment plan for Gen. William Palmer and became a mining millionaire by 1900. Artist Maynard Dixon accompanied Reed on his research trip for La-To-Kah. This wall art is based on one of Dixon’s sketches.
