Monuments of Multiple Meanings: Alexander Phimister Proctor’s University of Oregon Representations of Pioneers and Native Americans Over Time

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dc.contributor.authorJenkins, Madeline Luella
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-15T17:15:18Z
dc.date.available2018-12-15T17:15:18Z
dc.date.issued2017-12
dc.description57 pages. Presented to the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and the Robert D. Clark Honors College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts December 2017
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the shifting meanings of Alexander Phimister Proctor’s University of Oregon statues, The Pioneer and The Pioneer Mother. Because of changing social and historical contexts, these pioneer statues convey significantly different implications now than they did when they first arrived on campus in the early twentieth century. By exploring the biography the artist, the history of the statues, their donors, and their reception on campus, we can observe how the University of Oregon community viewed these pioneer statues during their introductions to campus. Subsequently, by examining the implications of the monumental sculpture genre, the current nationwide trend in reconsidering historical monuments, and the history of settler-colonialism in the Willamette Valley, we can identify what The Pioneer and The Pioneer Mother mean to a contemporary campus. The goal of this research is to establish that these statues have not one, but multiple meanings across time and contextual transformations.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/24020
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectArt Historyen_US
dc.subjectUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.subjectAlexander Phimister Proctoren_US
dc.subjectPioneersen_US
dc.subjectNative Americansen_US
dc.subjectMonumentsen_US
dc.subjectSettler colonialismen_US
dc.titleMonuments of Multiple Meanings: Alexander Phimister Proctor’s University of Oregon Representations of Pioneers and Native Americans Over Time
dc.typeThesis/Dissertation

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