Archive Blog Post: 6/19/2023

It’s a family affair, 1979 ~ Happy Father’s Day

​Photographs of Rockne’s father, Arthur S. Krebs, Jr., an engineer, assisting him with the construction of his public art sculpture The White Tornado for the atrium of the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Topeka, Kansas. Commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration Art-in-Architecture Program. An environmental sculpture 60 feet high with a tornado-like element on which white neon lightning bolts are placed to form a five-pointed star when viewed from below - sunlight, prisms, white neon, white painted aluminum, mirrors, and scrim fabric. 

Restoration of The White Tornado was completed by McKay Lodge Laboratory Fine Art Conservation in 2017.​

A photomontage of Arthur Krebs, Rockne’s father, a great dad
​and granddad.