''Hatfield Fountain'', formally the ''Antoinette and Mark O. Hatfield Fountain'' and nicknamed "Chicken Fountain", is an outdoor 1989 fountain and sculpture by Tom Hardy,

Lawrence Halprin Lawrence Halprin (July 1, 1916 – October 25, 2009) was an American landscape architect, designer and teacher. Beginning his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, in 1949, Halprin often collaborated with a local circle of modernist a ...

, and Scott Stickney, installed at

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, United States.

History

''Hatfield Fountain'' was designed by Tom Hardy,

, and Scott Stickney. It is named after Antoinette and

Mark Hatfield Mark Odom Hatfield (July 12, 1922 – August 7, 2011) was an American politician and educator from the state of Oregon. A Republican, he served for 30 years as a United States senator from Oregon, and also as chairman of the Senate Appropr ...

, a former Oregon senator and

alumnus, and was dedicated on October 13, 1989. According to Willamette University, the fountain serves as a popular reference point for campus gatherings. The ''Hatfield Fountain'' is administered by Willamette University. In July 1993, the fountain was surveyed and deemed as "well maintained" by the

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" program.

Description

The work features two birds set on a fountain consisting of large stones arranged in two stacks, all set in a round basin. The concrete-and-stone fountain measures approximately tall and has a diameter of . One bird sits atop each stack; the bird on the shorter stack is set in a

bird nest A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young. Although the term popularly refers to a specific structure made by the bird itself—such as the grassy cup nest of the American robin or Eurasian bl ...

of rods and carrying a twig in its mouth, and the bird on the taller stack has its wings spread. The birds are made of steel rods and cut bronze or steel sheet; one measures approximately x x , and another measures approximately x x . Water flows from one of the stacks into the basin. A nearby plaque reads: .

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