Title: Moody Blue Location: Country Club Plaza Artist: Joe Bill Breeden Sponsor: UMB Financial Corporation “Moody Blue” is painted in shades of blue and white to reflect the beautiful skies above Kansas City and spotted with large black musical notes that wrap around the contours of her body. This happy motif rises for a deep purple underbelly. “I wanted a design that at a glance represented a real cow but upon closer examination became a Song of the Plains, a tribute to the pioneers, past and present, whose passions and joys, hopes and dreams, triumphs and tragedies join the music of the wind to form the harmony that is Kansas City, the original Cowtown,” said the artist. Artist Joe Bill Breeden’s art ranges from logos to posters to scenic design. Most recently he designed a poster for the Missouri State Library’s summer reading program for children, “2001 Places to Go” and just finished painting the backdrops for “White Alligator—Ghosts of the Bayou”, the Kansas City Zoological Park’s special summer exhibit.				This cow was sold in the internet auction hosted by Amazon.com that began on October 5, 2001, immediately following the close of the live auction and ran for approximately three weeks. Send a Postcard

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