Samuel Dinsmoor. Eye of God. Garden of Eden. Lucas, Kansas.

Earl Iversen, artist

born 1943

Samuel Dinsmoor. Eye of God. Garden of Eden. Lucas, Kansas., 1995

Portfolio/Series title: Building From the Heart Portfolio

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 45.9 x 30.7 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 18 1/16 x 12 1/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Young

Accession number: 1999.0020.06

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"A Kansas Arts Sampler," Oct-2004, Kate Meyer
Grassroots art sites are a popular subject for Iversen. One of the most notable of such sites is S.P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden in Lucas. Iversen highlights the All-seeing Eye of God flanked by an avenging angel in this image, a subject on which Dinsmoor offered the following thoughts:

Here is the eye and the hand looking and pointing towards Cain and wife on the next tree. These are the only things I know of that we have to represent Deity. The heathen beat us on ideals. They have got more of a variety and better lookers, they worship their ideals just as we do the All-seeing Eye. They reverence God through their ideals; we take off our hats to the All-seeing Eye.