Portlandia (Statue)

Portlandia is the name of the entrance opened in 1982, the Portland Building in Portland, Oregon located in September 1985 statue by American artist Raymond Kaskey.

The sculpture is based on the seal of the city and shows a crouching on the pedestal dressed in antique style woman. In her left hand she holds a trident up while she stretches forward her right arm down, as they would welcome visitors. Below is a table with one of Portlandia poem dedicated lives in Portland poet Ronald Talney.

At 11 meters, this is after the Statue of Liberty is the second largest copper-made plastic in the USA. Would be the woman she would be 15 meters high.

You can look back on a narrow, tree-lined street with a rather low traffic. Thus came several times on the proposal to move the sculpture to a more visible place. The artist rejects this, however. He created the sculpture for exactly this place.

Kaskley considered the sculpture as its intellectual property. The city thus has no right to make keychains, T-Shirt, etc. and to sell, as is the case with the Statue of Liberty. That's one of the reasons for the low level of awareness of the work of art.

• Copper sculpture
• Portland ( Maine)