(Arnolds Park)– A bit of Iowa’s history is up for sale on E-Bay.
It’s a group of four original paintings by Iowa artist Maynard Reece once used as the state’s symbols–the state flag, the state seal, the state bird–the goldfinch, and the state flower–the wild rose.
The starting bid for the group, commissioned in the 1940’s, is five-thousand dollars.
Reece gave the paintings to Claude Cook, a former state historical curator. Cook’s granddaughter, Tootie Steward of Arnolds Park, put the paintings on E-Bay this week. They’re to be sold as a group.
Steward says she’d prefer to sell them to an Iowa museum or art enter, but they’ll go to the highest bidder.
The auction ends on Monday.
(Story from the Associated Press.).
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