23/02/2024
Stella Blu is a great place to stay for the Tulip Time Festival in May.
Congratulations to John Cowden’s Dutch Delivery - the official 2024 Tulip Time poster winner!
Cowden is no stranger to the Top 20 of the competition, but 2024 marks the first time his work has been chosen as the winner.
“When it was announced that the theme for the 2024 Tulip Time Festival would be ‘Bicycles,’ I immediately thought of a photograph I captured at Windmill Island Gardens the previous year. It incorporates so many aspects of Holland and the Tulip Time Festival. I know I needed to base a work of art on that image.” Cowden says of his piece.
Dutch Delivery is a classic oil on canvas painting featuring several Holland icons, including the DeZwaan Windmill, the tulip fields at Windmill Island Gardens, the Dutch flag, and a stunning orange bicycle that incorporates the theme of the 95th festival, bicycles.
Copies of the winning piece are available for sale at the Tulip Time Festival office along with other merchandise and souvenirs based on the Dutch Delivery painting. The artwork will also grace the label of Tulip Time’s custom beer, brewed by Big Lake Brewing.