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Image of Sunflower

Harry Reuben Reynolds (aka H. Reuben Reynolds)

American
(1898–1974)

Sunflower
1940

Gelatin silver print
29.75 x 23.75 x 0.75 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
1984.1905

Native to the American West, sunflowers often grew in the wagon ruts left behind by pioneers. The flowers were cultivated by Indigenous people in modern-day US and Mexico starting around 2600 BCE—almost five thousand years before the first European settlers arrived—as an important source of food and oil. Young sunflowers are heliotropic, meaning their flowers track the sun through the sky, so they were often associated with Pre-Columbian sun deities. As a faculty member in the USU Art department for 47 years, Reynolds most likely took this photograph in the Cache Valley.

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