“The Big Game”

the big game

An Autumn Day at Kinnick Stadium

Iowa is a friendly and welcoming place to live. Well, a least it is for 364 days of the year. There is one day each fall when the atmosphere changes. Although the in-state competition between Iowa and Iowa State Universities is quite serious, it is also a fun day of tailgating, cheering for your favorite team, enjoying the bands and the colorful crowd, and having a down-right great time in Iowa. The spirit of rivalry of this annual event is as “Iowa” as the corn we grow.

Included in this print: Coach Hayden Fry on the sideline, Iowa and Iowa State Bands, Hawkeye Village, Hedlund dental office, the “Magic Bus”, Big Turkey Legs on Melrose, Smiley is waving and smiling (he likes his likeness!), an eagle, University Heights policeman giving a ticket, UI Rec Center bird problem, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, a man with a handle-bar mustache, senior citizens kissing, a pregnant lady in labor walking to the hospital from the game, the student section “passing” a person and a beachball, Bump Elliott is in the press box, radio stations: KGRN, WHO and Jim Zabel with a friend, WMT, KXIC, KWPC, CORN, KOTH, KHAK, announcers, a Cambus and a Tri-State Tours bus, the “bubble,” Klotz tennis courts, the crowd forming a “wave”, City High, West High and Regina food stands, Herky and Cy are going at it as the Golden Girl stands by, the tents of Hawkeye Village, cookie sales and a limo, the sidelines, cheerleaders, ETC!

Addendum to “The Big Game” artist statement:

My husband Tom has the pleasure of working in the press box during home games at Kinnick.  He has met Hayden and Bump and many other Hawkeye royalties there.  One game Tom took one of my prints of “The Big Game” as a gift to Hayden, and Hayden wrote this wonderful thank you note to us:

The following year Hayden’s wife Shirley told Tom that she hung the print right by Hayden’s bed so that it was the first thing he saw every morning when he woke up.  It reminded him of how much the people in Iowa loved him!

What a wonderful thing for me to hear!

Suzanne Aunan

Prints:

image size: unframed: framed:
Lithograph 10″ x 7″
$59
$199
Limited Edition (1000) Lithograph 17″ x 12″
$94
$269

Commemorative Edition Lithograph

(see below)

17″ x 12″
$319
Limited Edition (200) Lithograph 29″ x 21″
$199
$469
Commemorative Edition Lithograph 29″ x 21″
$529
Limited Edition (100) Canvas Giclee 29″ x 21″
$849
$1099
Limited Edition (100) Canvas Giclee 42″ x 30″
$1299
$1819

University of Iowa Commemorative Edition

“The Big Game” Wood Decoupaged Ornament

2 1/2″ x 1 3/4″ solid maple ornament is handmade, signed on reverse, and packaged for gift giving.$26.00

 


Prints from “The Big Game”

Print size includes white border surrounding image so no mat is necessary. Each is sealed in clear poly sleeve, titled and signed in pencil, and fits standard frame size.

8″ x 10″ $39


11″ x 14″ $49

17″ x 13″ $59

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