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Bear Gargoyle

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Type
  
Sculpture

Created
  
1988

Year
  
1998

Artist
  
Wayne Chabre

Subject
  
Grizzly bear

Owner
  
University of Oregon

Bear Gargoyle

Dimensions
  
1.7 m × 1.2 m × 1.5 m (5.5 ft × 4 ft × 5 ft)

Condition
  
"Treatment needed" (1993)

Location
  
Eugene, Oregon, United States

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Bear Gargoyle is an outdoor 1988 sculpture by Wayne Chabre, installed at the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It depicts the head of a grizzly bear with a Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl Indian) bear mask on top. The sculpture is made of hammered 32 oz. copper over a stainless steel frame and measures approximately 5.5 feet (1.7 m) x 4 feet (1.2 m) x 5 feet (1.5 m). Its condition was deemed "treatment needed" by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in March 1993. The sculpture is administered by the University of Oregon.

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