Administered by Youth Museum of the Finger Lakes c/o Deb Poplasky, 169 Chapin Street Canandaigua New York 14424
Located Youth Museum of the Finger Lakes 3740 Routes 5 & 20 East Hopewell New York
Date:
1989. Installed 1990
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
Image on file.
unsigned
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Summary:
A welded sculpture depicting a two-dimensional seated man, made from sheet steel, driving a tractor, made from old tractor parts. The tractor is painted in the traditional John Deere green with yellow trim. "SOD BUSTER" is painted on the front. The driver rests his proper right hand on the steering wheel and his proper left hand on the gear shift. He wears a red and black checked shirt, white suspenders, blue paints striped with black, and a dark fedora hat with a light blue hatband.
