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
- 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.
- 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
- Latitude
- 44.0495039
- Longitude
- -123.0930272
- 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_20648
- 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
- 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. Peter Helzer received an M. F. A. degree in sculpture (1983) from the University of Oregon. He operates a bronze foundry in Dexter, Oregon.
