Let the Games Begin
- Title
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Let the Games Begin
- LC Subject
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Sculpture
Metal sculpture
Art metal-work
Physical education and training
Sports
sculpture (visual work)
<sculpture by function>
metalwork (visual works)
outdoor sculpture
public sculpture
steelwork (visual works)
- Creator
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Greenamyer, George Mossman
- Description
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Front view of a building sculpture with a short wall curving around the building. Green columns hold up a rail with athletic figures lining the top. Multiple flags surround the building. A circle (or "O") is featured in the middle of the glass windows with a triangular roof above.
Greenamyer; UO Casanova
The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
- View
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facing building
- Location
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University of Oregon Athletic Department >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
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2727 Leo Harris Parkway, Eugene Oregon
- Date
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1975/2012
- Identifier
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1991_uo_len-casanova_athlet-cntr_03_a04
- Accession Number
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1991_uo_len-casanova_athlet-cntr_03_a04
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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Greenamyer, George
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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figures: 20 inches tall
- Material
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Sculpture; Metalwork
forged, welded, painted steel
- Set
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Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
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1991 University of Oregon Len Casanova Athletic Center
1991_uo_len-casanova_athlet-cntr
- Has Version
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slide; color
- Institution
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Oregon Arts Commission
University of Oregon
- Note
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For background information on this project, please see: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/architecture/oregon/casanova.html. An interactive campus map of the University of Oregon may be viewed at: http://map.uoregon.edu/
- Color Space
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RGB
- Biographical Information
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First and foremost, I consider myself a straight forward narrative public art sculptor. Much of my inspiration comes from structural engineering, Shaker furniture, folk art, Jules Verne, Yankee tinkering, military hardware, architecture,and various visual utopias produced by naive artists. I have created science partnerships to realize kinetic sculptures and am interested in pursuing that further. I seek and enjoy input from historical reference, local idiosyncracies, materials, inventions, etc., anything that gives me clues as a designer to make the concept belong to the site. My work has a multi-level aesthetic, narrative, and concept that can be understood by the non-art trained person as well as the esoteric critic. I work in steel which is vandal and weather resistant and designed to be easily assembled on site. The steel is machined, hot-forged, and welded. It is then sandblasted, primed, and finish coated. I have worked many times with public art agencies, public space designers, landscape architects, transportation systems, and private industry. I work easily with groups, am very organized, and realize major projects within budget and on time. (Greenmayer, 1991)