“Tri Kappa Popcorn Concession.” Edna Agar. Watercolor on paper. Circa 1944.
This watercolor on paper by Edna Agar is the artist’s impression of the Tri Kappa’s Popcorn Concession on the midway at the Valparaiso Recreational Council’s July 4 celebration in 1944. According to an article in The Vidette-Messenger on December 4, 1946, Agar created this work for her Tri Kappa group and it was loaned for exhibit inside the Valparaiso Public Library, where it has presumably remained since that initial time. Now the Porter County Public Library System has loaned the work for display at the Montague/Urschel Gallery so the work can be added to “On the Scene: Selections from the Permanent Collection.”