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.
