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R Urban R F RAN KLIN Farm BLVD 4 - Flying Ducks 11 - Trees of Knowledge Villard 5Robinson “Flying Ducks” (1970) was created by Tom Hardy and given to the School of “Trees of Knowledge” is a 1994 copper garden sculpture by Wayne Chabre. This Northwest Theatre Christian McKenzie MILLER THEATRE COMPLEX Architecture and Allied Arts in 1984 by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Klopfenstein. It now rests work, located on the back (south) side of the library, consists of three 4-foot-tall Lawrence University Hope Cascade Theatre Deady 4 Annex comfortably on the west facade of the Lawrence Hall, which houses the School of lights shaped like trees with book “leaves” rather than ST 12TH AVE Onyx Bridge Pacific Streisinger Architecture and Allied Arts. fruits. UO 3 Allen Cascade Annex Computing 6 27 Klamath Lillis L O K E Y S C I E N C E C O M P L E X LILLIS BUSINESS COMPLEX 28 Lokey Jaqua Willamette Laboratories Oregon 5 - Dads’ Gates 12 - Pegasus Duck Chiles Fenton 2 Friendly Huestis Academic Store Peterson Anstett Columbia 26 Center The ornamental “Dads’ Gates” were put into place in January 1941. The concept As you walk back to the front of the library, look up to Information Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Deschutes Kiosk T Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology Volcanology S for the gates started in 1938 by the Dads see Pegasus by Keith Jellum, a polished cast-bronze Condon Chapman H C Johnson C 25 Watson Burgess Collier Carson E Club, a patron-parent organization of the wind sculpture located on the roof of the Knight Library’s E E B University oynt llier B House B on Co Health, Hamilton university that was established in 1927. “Dads’ Kincaid Street addition. This sculpture is over seven feet Erb Memorial Counseling Cloran Dunn JOHNSON LANE Union (EMU) and Testing Gates” was designed collaboratively by Ellis tall and over 400 pounds and was commissioned as part 16 17 18 1 lain Robb Prince McC ins Tingle Spiller F. Lawrence, the university architect from of the 1% for Art program. Lucien 15 Schnitzer Hawthorne Campbell Museum 21 McClure Dyment McAllister (PLC) MRI Morton North DeCou Schafer 1914 until his death in 1946, and architecture T T T T 14 of Art Casw S S S S Living Walton Susan Straub Earl 22 D D D D I I I I Hendricks LearningAdams Sweetser T A A A A Campbell Sheldon students. The metalwork was crafted by O.B. 13 - Knight Library Heads S Dept of Center C C C C 20 N N N N X Public I I I I Gerlinger Stafford South Douglass Y K K K K 13 19 Safety Clark Smith Hender Dawson, a master blacksmith who produced The Knight Library Heads include 15 sculptured heads N O Young Gerlinger numerous iron works as an employee with the cast in stone that represent fi gures from the disciplines 12 Knight Annex Alder Library Bowerman 24 Museum of Student Family Natural and Depression-era Federal Art Project of the Works taught in academia, such as Aristotle, Jesus Christ, Recreation Cultural Artificial History Progress Administration. Beethoven, and Buddha, to name a few. Located on the Lokey Turf Field 23 Knight Education 11 Covered Hayward T Law frieze, a sculptured, richly ornamented band found just Tennis S Esslinger Field E Many East East East East T Courts T A A 7 A Nations 6 - Wind Fence below the roofl ine of the building, the sculpted heads are G Grandstand T Pioneer A West Longhouse S Grandstand 8 Y Located on the north lawn of the Lillis Business Complex, “Wind Fence” (2003) was cast around the east, north, and west sides of the original library. The sculptures T Education I McArthur HEDCO S Artificial LERC Olum Annex R Court Education E Turf Field Military infl uenced by the artist’s academic background in are the work of Edna Dunberg and Louise G. Utter and were completed in 1937. V I Student Science N N Tennis U U 9 U environmental studies. The artist, Ned Kahn, describes the Eugene Fire HEP Cemetery Department Beall work: “The panels are composed of thousands of small, 14 - The Family Concert Howe Hammer Field 10 Field anodized aluminum elements that are hinged to move “The Family,” located south of the Jordan Schnizer Frohnmayer Outdoor Music Tennis Clinical Courts freely in the wind. The intent of the artwork is to reveal Museum of Art, is a sculpture given in 1974 by the Please begin at the Pioneer Mother statue in the Women’s Memorial Quad (refer to the invisible passage of wind through the fence. The curve William A. Haseltine family in honor of Karl Onthank, a #1 on map). of the fence echoes the curved façade of the architecture.” UO administrator from 1909-1957. 1- Pioneer Mother 7 - New Horizons 15 - Prince Lucien Campbell Memorial Courtyard “The Pioneer Mother” was sited near the original women’s buildings (Gerlinger, “New Horizons” (1981) is a freestanding cast-bronze The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art was constructed Hendricks, and Susan Campbell Halls) in 1930. Alexander Phimster Proctor created sculpture. The artist, Don Eckland, describes this work as in 1930 and is listed in the National Register. If both “The Pioneer Mother” and “Pioneer”. The Pioneer Mother’s gaze is directed “a multi-faceted work suggesting numerous relationships . possible, take time to visit the Prince Lucien Campbell through the glazed doors of Johnson Hall to The Pioneer. between the larger fi gure, which at once suggests in itself Memorial Courtyard and the art exhibits. the past and the contemporary, and the several smaller 2 - Pioneer fi gures with their interdependence. And there is the 16 - Prometheus The “Pioneer,” modeled after a trapper near Burns desire to seek out and explore with unassuredness in the “Prometheus” (1958) is located north of the Schnitzer Museum of Art. This Oregon, was created by Alexander Proctor. The bronze adult fi gure. In essence, I have attempted to suggest a sculpture commemorates Gamma Phi Beta’s 50th anniversary on the UO scultpure, mounted on a base of McKenzie River basalt, relationship of education and guidance in seeing new campus. It was created by Czech-born artist Jan Zach (1914-86), who taught was commissioned by Joseph N. Teal and presented by horizons.” sculpture at the UO from 1958-79. him to the UO in 1919. It has been a popular campus meeting spot since it was unveiled. The “Pioneer” is 8 - Emergence 17 - Encounter rumored to be the model for ‘Jebediah Springfi eld,’ the statue in Homer Simpson’s “Emergence”, also by Don Eckland (1981), is a cast-bronze statue. Eckland “Encounter” is a 2004 bronze sculpture hometown on the TV show The Simpsons– something that can neither be confi rmed describes the statue as a “young woman . poised at rest just prior to departing. by Bruce Beasley, commissioned nor denied. [S]he is indeed ready to emerge.” This statue was aquisitioned as a part of the through the 1% for Art program. The state’s 1% for Art program during the expansion of the Education Building (now the artist describes the base blocks as 3 - Colophons Lorry I. Lockey Education Building). representing the university’s foundation– The nine “Colophons” (printer’s marks) are architecturally integrated between the the faculty, library, and research fi rst and second story windows on the west façade of Allen Hall, occupied by the 9 - Unity facilities – while the upper blocks School of Journalism. Created in 1954 they represent a Masayuki Nagase describes his sculpture “Unity”: “The main image that I envision represent university activities–learning, survey of the history of printing. For example, the inscription is an abstract form of the universal concept of Heaven and Earth, in the Asian questioning, and exposure to arts and ‘ALDUS’ identifi es the Aldine Press after Aldus Manutius traditions of Yin and Yang.” The sculpture, commissioned in 2009 as part of the 1% ideas. (1449-1515), who was a pioneering fi gure in publishing, for Art program, is carved out of granite boulders. printing, and typography. The UO’s printing press formerly 18 - Refl ections of a Summer Day occupied the building’s lower level. 10 - Cadenza, Calypso, Fandango The bright yellow “Refl ections of a “Cadenza,” “Calypso,” and “Fandango” are steel scuplures designed by artist Summer Day” was a gift of the artist, Duane Loppnow, a UO graduate who Richard Swanson and were installed in the MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music participated in the 1974 International Sculpture Symposium in Eugene. This Photos: Edward H. Teague Building’s Penny Vanderwicken Duprey Courtyard in 2008. In Swanson’s words, “I artistic event brought to Eugene six world-class sculptors, who designed The Architecture of the University of Oregon http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/architecture/oregon/ see scuplutres as musical phrases, no hidden meanings, just something pure...” sculpture pieces that are still on display throughout the city. 19 - Akbar’s Garden 24 - “Bear,” “Raven,” and “Salmon” “Akbar’s Garden” was created by artist Lee Kelly in Attached to the exterior walls of the Museum of Natural 1984. This 17-foot steel sculpture depicts a garden and Cultural History are three hammered sheet copper belonging to a twelfth century Indian emperor. The gargoyle sculptures. Commissioned as a part of the 1% for sculpture was donated by Jordan Schnitzer and his Art program, they were created by artist Wayne Chabre. In parents in 2002 to celebrate the success of The addition, go inside and explore the Museum’s many exhibits.