''Rain Forest'' is a bronze fountain/sculpture by James FitzGerald located on the campus of

Western Washington University Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is a public university in Bellingham, Washington. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, succeeding a pri ...

. Commissioned in 1959 and unveiled in 1960, it was the first work in the

Western Washington University Public Sculpture Collection The Western Washington University Outdoor Sculpture Collection is a public sculpture collection founded in 1960. The collection contains thirty-six public sculptures spanning 190 acres of the Western Washington University campus. History In 1957, ...

. The sculpture represents the

temperate rainforest Temperate rainforests are coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rain. Temperate rain forests occur in oceanic moist regions around the world: the Pacific temperate rain forests of North American ...

s of the nearby

Olympic Peninsula The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the ...

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1959 sculptures Fountains in Washington (state) Outdoor sculptures in Washington (state) Western Washington University Works by James FitzGerald (artist) {{Washington-sculpture-stub