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''Winter Rider No. 2'', also known as ''Winter Rider Variation'', is an outdoor
bronze sculpture Bronze is the most popular metal for Casting (metalworking), cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as w ...
by American artist
James Lee Hansen James Lee Hansen (born June 13, 1925) is an American sculptor. Early life Hansen was born in Tacoma, Washington on June 13, 1925. Works * ''Talos'' (1964), Fulton Mall * ''The Guardian'' (1965) * ''Glyph Singer No. 3'' (1976), Vancouver, Washin ...
, located on the
Transit Mall A transit mall is a street, or set of streets, in a city or town along which automobile traffic is prohibited or greatly restricted and only public transit vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians are permitted. Transit malls are instituted by communi ...
of
downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...
Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...
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Description and history

''Winter Rider No. 2'' is a bronze sculpture by James Lee Hansen, located at the intersection of Southwest 6th Avenue and Taylor Street,
Portland Transit Mall The Portland Transit Mall is a public transit corridor that travels north–south through the center of downtown in Portland, Oregon, United States. It comprises a pair of one-way streets—6th Avenue for northbound traffic and 5th Avenue for ...
. Completed in 2003, the abstract tall
equestrian statue An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin ''eques'', meaning 'knight', deriving from ''equus'', meaning 'horse'. A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a d ...
depicts a horse and rider. It was installed at its current location in February 2010; previously, it was installed at the Public Service Building. The sculpture is owned by the Douglas Goodman family and is on loan to the city as part of the Transit Mall's Northwest sculpture collection. Hansen's ''
Talos No. 2 ''Talos No. 2'' is an outdoor 1959–1977 bronze sculpture created by the American artist James Lee Hansen. It is located in the Portland Transit Mall, Transit Mall of Downtown Portland, downtown Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Descriptio ...
'' (1977) is also installed on the Transit Mall, at the intersection of Southwest Sixth Avenue and
Stark Street Stark Street is an east-west-running street in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The street is named after Benjamin Stark, and Southeast Stark Street and Southwest Stark Street are divided by the Willamette River. In late 2017, activists pr ...
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See also

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2003 in art The year 2003 in art involves various significant events. Events *January 21 – The Spire of Dublin is completed. *May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's ''Saliera'' is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. *June 15-November 2 - A record ...
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List of equestrian statues in the United States This is a list of equestrian statues in the United States. List Alabama Alaska * Girdwood **''Mountain Man'', by Frederic Remington, Alyeska Resort cast 1907(?) Arizona *Phoenix ** ''Lariat Cowboy'' (1926) unveiled in Phoenix, April 21, 1 ...
* ''The Falconer'' (Hansen), a sculpture by Hansen formerly installed at the University of Oregon


References


External links


A Guide to Portland Public Art
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Regional Arts & Culture Council The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) is an organization that administers arts grants in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties that also do advocacy in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It evolved from the city†...
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