Volume 9 , Issue 20

Liggett's Political Sculptures of Mullinville, KS

Wednesday of this week on our way to Northwest Oklahoma we passed through Western kansas via highway 50 to highway 154 to Mullinville, Kansas.

What we found on the West edge of the town of Mullinville were some political sculptures that set on the north side of the highway. They are traffic stoppers! That's for sure!

The digital panorama view is a sample of M. T. Liggett's Political Sculptures that line the north side of Hwy 154, West of Mullinville, Kansas. Liggett was born into a sharecropping family in tiny Mullinville, Kansas (about 30 miles east of Dodge City) in the 1930's. Aside from some years in the military, Liggett has lived in Mullinville, Kansas all of his life.

M.T. Liggett expresses his outlook with his art. You will see hundreds of flapping, whirling, and static metal sculptures set on poles -- some are 20 feet tall -- along the fence line of Highway 154, just west of tiny Mullinville, Kansas.

There are some who do not like M.T. Liggett's art. Or, rather, they don't like some of M.T. Liggett's art. Everyone enjoys his windmills, gyros, and whirligigs, spinning and flashing in the prairie wind and Kansas sun.

In 1989, Liggett began creating metal sculptures with a plasma arc cutter and an arc welder to turn old farm equipment, car parts, road signs, and any other odd bits of iron he can lay his hands on, into fantastic characters which adorn his property, on the side of Route 400 just west of town. Most of Liggett's sculptures are brightly painted, and many have moving parts that spin and flash in the hot Kansas sun.

Here is some links to M. T. Liggett and his sculptures that we found while doing a Google search for Mullinville, Kansas: M. T. Liggett Link #1 - M. T. Liggett Link #2 - M. T. Liggett Link #3
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