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Oregon Pioneer, also known as Gold Man, [1] is an eight-and-a-half ton bronze sculpture with gold leaf finish that sits atop the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon, United States. Created by Ulric Ellerhusen, the statue is a 22 ft (7 m)-tall hollow sculpture. The gilded piece was installed atop the building in 1938 when a new capitol was built.
The statue was vandalized in April 2019; it was painted red both in the groin area and on the whip. [16] Then on May 20, 2019--the hundredth anniversary of the statue's installation--students from the Native American Students Union held a protest, calling for the Pioneer to be removed due to the experience of Native American peoples of Oregon. [17]
Allow Me, also known as Umbrella Man, [1] is a 1983 bronze sculpture by John Seward Johnson II, located in Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, United States. The sculpture, one of seven Allow Me casts, was donated anonymously to the City of Portland in 1984 for display in the Square. It depicts a life-sized man dressed in a business ...
The Man’s ascension was marked by a ceremony presided over by Gov. Phil Noel, Adjutant Gen. Leonard Holland and me. Since July 1976, the Independent Man has stood like a sentinel over our seat ...
2018: The Independent Man (actually, a full-sized cast from the bronze statue taken when the man was down for repair in 1975.) stands in the parking lot outside of the food court of Rhode Island Mall.
Coming of the White Man is a bronze sculpture by American artist Hermon Atkins MacNeil, installed in Washington Park, Portland, Oregon in the United States. The statue was gifted to the City of Portland in 1904 by former mayor David P. Thompson and installed the following year.
On Saturday in Turner, Oregon, a statue of nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty took a tumble off a wall at the Enchanted Forest amusement park. Talk about life imitating art ... or perhaps life ...
The sculpture in 2007. The Quest was designed by Count Alexander von Svoboda, an Austria-born, Toronto-based sculptor. [3] It was commissioned by Georgia-Pacific in 1967 and installed in front of the Standard Insurance Center (formerly known as the Georgia-Pacific Building) [4] at Southwest 5th Avenue and Southwest Taylor Street in downtown Portland in 1970.