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Portland's New Copper Lady |
| Section: THE ARTS / EXHIBITION |
| Author: Anne Smart |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1986 |
| Size: 536 Words, 3,353 Characters |
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One hundred years after the Statue of Liberty left France and sailed for the United States, the second largest copper sculpture in America left Baltimore, Maryland and headed west for Portland, Oregon by rail.
Three stories tall, Portlandia is Liberty's daughter. She was created with the same painstaking and antiquated techniques, and was commissioned by the Metropolitan Arts Commission to symbolize the city ...
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... a maquette based upon the City of Portland symbol and, after two more elimination rounds, was awarded the commission.
The resulting thirty-foot-tall copper lady who kneels above the entrance to Portland's public service building has her right arm outstretched in welcome while her left grips the classic symbol of water, a trident. She is a modern and a timeless emblem of the port city.
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