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This cache is dedicated to the wonderfully creative artist Jim Gary.
Is this a Garysaurus?? Or is it just a copy cat? Being that its made from horse shoes and other metal parts, I'd say it just might be a copy cat. I pass by here almost once a week on my way to the Tullytown Walmart and I thought it'd be a good cache location.
I've been to two of the locations where some of Jim Gary's wonderfully made Garysauruses are located GC1NJ7J (is a lime green dinosaur at a famous diner) and where Jim Gary lived before he passed away. Jim Gary's house is located at 62 Hollywood Ave Farmingdale, NJ 07727. If visiting his house, please be respectful and ask the residents if you can walk the property to look at Jim's art work (I haven't been to Jim's house in almost a year, January 2010..the Garysauruses might not be there but its definitely worth the drive to check out them as you're on the way to get the GC1NJ7J cache!).
The following is alittle bit of history about Jim Gary:
Jim Gary (March 17, 1939 – January 14, 2006) was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts. These sculptures typically were finished with automobile paint although some were left to develop a natural patina. He was recognized internationally for his fine, architectural, landscape, and whimsical monumental art as well as abstracts. Sculpture and life figures by Gary often included intricate use of stained glass and his works frequently were composed of, or included, hardware, machine parts, and tools.
He was born in Sebastian, Florida, but lived in Colts Neck, New Jersey from early infancy. At the time of his death he was a resident of nearby Farmingdale.
Jim Gary is the only living sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., which opened on April 12, 1990. In January 2006, Time stated that Gary's work "delighted kids as well as curators, including those at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where he had an acclaimed solo show in 1990." During the same month, on January 24, 2006 the Los Angeles Times reported in an article, Jim Gary, 66; Artist Who Created Playful Dinosaur Skeletons From Car Parts, that some critics compared Jim Gary's sculptures with Pablo Picasso's famous bull's head made from a bicycle seat and handlebars.
One of his signature works, a life-sized figure of a woman composed entirely of hardware gained the admiration of renowned sculptor Jacques Lipchitz at a sidewalk show in New York in the early 1960s.
A tribute to the sculptor was published on February 14, 2006 in the British newspaper, The Guardian, by Andrew Roth, a well known biographer and journalist. In this tribute the author coined a new word, Garysauruses, a neologism to describe the dinosaurs created by Jim Gary. The memorials, tributes, and obituaries for Jim Gary were numerous, the international recognition reflecting the widespread appeal of his work. Roth's apt name for Gary's dinosaur sculptures has begun to be used by others.
Early in his career, the invention of neologisms arose for Gary's dinosaurs. Chevrosaurus was among the first when it was published in the New York Times in May 1979 Another New York Times writer described one of Gary's works as a Diner-saurus, because when the green Stegosaurus was not traveling on exhibition, he usually displayed it at the diner he frequented. None of these stuck for long without the Gary name as part of the new words, as Roth's clever one does in his tribute.
Have fun and be safe with this cache!
PLEASE DO NOT CLIMB ON THE DINOS!!!!
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