Our Projects
We are trying to get ourselves out of the art fair groove. Schlepping three tons of bronze and cast iron around the country has lost its charm somehow and we yearn to spend more time at the shop making new stuff, preferably big impressive things. To that end we are seeking commissions more actively, mainly figurative, human and or animal life-size or bigger. We have the facilities and talent to do them but seek the necessary funds. Casting large scale bronzes on speculation can break the bank pretty quickly. This section highlights some of the things we have done along those lines and projects we are currently working on.
 Irving B. Weber, Portrait of a gentleman.
Irving Weber was Iowa City's official historian. He was a life long native of the city an wrote a weekly column in the Press Citizen about its people, buildings and historic events. The Lions and the city commissioned Doris and Steve to model and cast...
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 Bronze life sized draft horses for the city of DeWitt, Iowa.
DeWitt plans to honor native son John Bloom, a WPA protege of Grant Wood, with a 3-D version of a post office mural he did for his home town.A farmer picks corn by hand while his team of horses stand harnessed to the wagon.
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 Donor Tree Kalona Public Library
The Friends of the Kalona Public Library commissioned us to make a bronze donor tree for the new library. Each of the four different sized leaves represents a level of giving. The big donors got the large leaves, the lesser, smaller. The mold for the...
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 Miller Plaque (2003)
Miller plaque made for the Pleasant View Home in Kalona Iowa. This is a bronze piece.
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 Sea Turtle
Doris Park with the big turtle pattern (Wax over styrofoam).
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