Storyteller (sculpture) (Eugene, Oregon)
- Title
- Storyteller (sculpture) (Eugene, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture--United States
- Alternative
- Ken Kesey Memorial Statue (Eugene, Oregon)
- Creator
- Helzer, Peter
- Creator Display
- Peter Helzer (artist)
- Description
- This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest.
- View
- detail view
- Provenance
- Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
- Temporal
- 2000-2009
- Work Type
- architecture (object genre) open spaces squares, public plazas (squares) sculpture (visual work) outdoor sculpture public sculpture
- Location
- Eugene >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States United States
- Street Address
- Broadway Plaza
- Date
- 2003
- View Date
- 2003
- Identifier
- pna_20645
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Rights Holder
- University of Oregon
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Note
- The Storyteller commemorates author Ken Kesey (1935-2001) and depicts Kesey reading to his grandchildren, Kate, Caleb, and Jordan. The statue is designed so that people can sit on the bench. A plaque on the work quotes a passage from Kesey's novel, Sometimes a Great Notion. Peter Helzer received an M. F. A. degree in sculpture (1983) from the University of Oregon. He operates a bronze foundry in Dexter, Oregon.
