Title: About the Stan Jorstad Primrose Farm Photography Collection
Artist: Stan Jorstad
Medium: Photography
Location: Pottawatomie Community Center (South Lobby), 8 North Avenue
Owner: St. Charles Park District
Donated By: Stan Jorstad
Map Locator Number: #13

The Park District’s Collection of Jorstad Photographs includes:  Chicken Coop Door; Combining Oats; Corn Field on a Summer Afternoon; Corn Shocks in Autumn; Corn Shocks in Winter; Corn Shocks Through the Trees; Field Corn on Primrose Farm Silo; Hauling Grain; Primrose Farm Dairy Barn in Winter; Primrose Farm Granary; Primrose Farm Milk House; Pushing the Wheelbarrow Back to the Barn; Ripe Wheat in Amber Light; Standing Wheat; The Farmer; Wooden Wagon Wheel

Images of each of these photographs are included in this web site.  The featured photograph for this page shows the area in the Pottawatomie Community Center where the collection is hung.

Artist Story, excerpted from Mr. Jorstad’s web site:  “In the early 1960s, Stan was a cinematographer for the acclaimed television series, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. In 1979, he launched PhotoMark, a commercial photography business, based in St. Charles, Illinois. His son, Steve, now carries on the business. During his travels, his wife Wanda and their family often accompanied him on his park excursions.

Stan Jorstad’s life work has become an impressive film-based, historic photographic portfolio of America’s National Parks. He was the first film-based professional photographer to document and photograph each of our then 58 National Parks. His son Steve continued the tradition and photographed Pinnacles National Park in California which completes the current collection of 59 “Crown Jewels” in the National Park system.”

The Stan Jorstad Primrose Farm Photography Collection is featured on the Art Tour.  Download the Otocast app on your electronic device to hear the artist’s story.

Photograph Courtesy of the St. Charles Park District