''Point of View'' is a 2006 landmark public sculpture in bronze by James A. West; it sits in a parklet named for the work of art, Point of View Park, in

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. The piece depicts

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and the

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leader

Guyasuta Guyasuta (c. 1725–c. 1794; see, Kayahsotaˀ, either "he stands up to the cross" or "he sets up the cross") was an important Native American leader of the Seneca people in the second half of the eighteenth century, playing a central role i ...

, with their weapons down, in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770, when the two men met while Washington was in the area examining land for future settlement along the

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. The work weighs 750 lbs. and cost $130,000 for materials with charitable donations of land, pedestal and artist time. ''Point of View'' sits on the edge of

Mount Washington Mount Washington is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at and the most topographically prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River. The mountain is notorious for its erratic weather. On the afternoon of April 12, 1934 ...

(Grandview Avenue at Sweetbriar Street) on the westernmost end of Grand View Scenic Byway Park and the Grand View Scenic Byway, a designated Pennsylvania scenic byway. The sculpture was dedicated on October 25, 2006, by mayor Luke Ravenstahl.

References

External links

''Point of View'' sculpture website
*Diana Nelson Jones (2006)
''Point of View'' sculpture installation: story from the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''
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