Portlandia

Portlandia is a monumental copper repoussé sculpture by Raymond Kaskey mounted above the entrance of the Portland Building in downtown Portland, Oregon. Based on the city seal, it portrays Lady Commerce in classical dress with a trident, reaching toward the street below. Commissioned by the City of Portland in 1985, the work was fabricated in sections near Washington, D.C., shipped west, and installed after traveling up the Willamette River by barge. As the second largest copper repoussé statue in the United States after the Statue of Liberty, it became a defining civic symbol. Its history has also drawn attention to questions of copyright, ownership, and public art.

Portland, Oregon · United States