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    A Fountain and Stairway Design for the Open-Air Theater Behind the Music Building
    (University of Oregon, 1935-12) Overturf, Josephine Wiseman
    ... And now for a practical consideration of the problem. Here is a small outdoor theater for which I am to furnish a convenient entrance and exit. The group of people that will assemble here will be small. For this reason I have created by curve volumes, intimacy and unformality. By horizontal lines I have created a mood of rest and seriousness. There will be no need for a group to rush either into or out of this area -- this I have said with curved stairways. In formulating my idea I first built to scale a five foot bank with a ten foot slope as actually exists. Into this I sculptured or cut the volumes to coincide with the functions I have stated. The volumes illustrated emerged.
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    A Group of Sculptures
    (University of Oregon, 1963-12) Mayhew, Elza
    The artist works for many years, and makes diverse things in varying media and styles. Then he finds, if he has worked with sufficient concentration, that for the most part he is ‘at home’—at his most humble, unpretending, best, most honest—in one particular manner of expression. Works in that style at Shows will attract him more that the others, good as the others may be, for he is gleaning all possible understanding of that way of expression. He is critical of himself and of others who work in this way.
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    An Interpretation of the Four Evangelists in Sculpture
    (University of Oregon, 1960-06) Forrester, Charles H.
    The theme of the work for my thesis project is derived from the four Evangelists of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The gospel message which they wrote down and the traditional legends of their lives provided the inspiration for these sculptures. Some of the sculptures are interpretations of the Evangelists themselves, while others may be called symbols which are related to the spiritual content of the Gospels. In the Middle Ages various symbols evolved for each evangelist. These symbols were supposed to show that the Old Testament forecast the events of the New Testament. The four creatures mentioned in Revelations 4:7 and Ezekiel 1:10 were the bases of representing Matthew as an Angel, Mark as a lion, Luke as an ox, and John as an eagle. I have sometimes accepted these symbols as a starting point for my sculpture, because I value the role of tradition in Christianity. However, I am mindful of the fact that biblical scholars of all religious viewpoints agree that we know very little about the Evangelists themselves. The major source of inspiration for my sculptures is the Gospels themselves, not the personalities of the unknown authors. And thus my symbols are attempts to evoke the spiritual presence of the Gospels.
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    Montana a Symbolic Figure to be Placed at the Entrance of the North Montana State Fair Grounds at Great Falls Montana
    (University of Oregon, 1942-05) Conrad, Cyril Harry
    Several clay sketches were made, studied, and set aside for future reference. Then a scale model of a portion of the fair grounds and the centrally located Mercantile Building was constructed. Reducing the preliminary with them in relation to their environment brought about many interesting problems. Early conceptions were based on the close association of the piece of sculpture with the Mercantile Building, which is a long horizontal building with a central tower. Therefore, all the early sketches were dominantly horizontal with a subordinate vertical.