“ The Art School required teachers to also produce their own art. Early in his career, Noland used an old mannequin that had been lying around the Art School to make a project: from the bottom half he made a leg lamp and from the torso he made a waste basket. They were on view in his fourth-floor office until he retired. A man seeking employment at the school became tantalized with the lamp and came by Noland’s office many times to look at it and ask about how it was put together-he nearly took it apart to see how it was made. A few years later, this same man was on the production team that produced the leg lamp from a hosiery leg for a 1983 movie. Noland always felt his lamp was the prototype for the one in the movie-A Christmas Story.”

I haven’t been so proud of my hometown since I learned Clevon Little was from Chickasha.

Thanks to Mr. James for the original and to Mr. Tim Elliott of Chickasha for triple dog daring the city to allow this 50 foot version. Chickasha may just be the greatest town in America.