Cows Come Home

Since I have always been fascinated by seeing the same subject portrayed by different artists, I have always loved it when cities have artists decorate multiples of an animal or object. Since I also love to research my interests I’ve long known that allthough I don’t think I became aware of this phenomenon until the first time Easthampton did bears, it started years before with the Chicago cows. So it was fun to find out that for the twentieth anniversary of that seminal event some of the original cows are being displayed again. There is a small herd of them hanging out in a small park on Michegan Avenue. Here are a few: