''Yankee Champion'' is an outdoor 1985 stainless steel sculpture by Thomas Morandi, located on the

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campus in downtown

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Description and history

''Yankee Champion'' is a welded

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sculpture with an aggregate concrete base by Thomas Morandi, located at the southeast corner of Southwest Broadway and Montgomery Street on the

campus. Described as a "conglomerate of shapes supported by three irregularly shaped legs", the piece measures approximately tall x long x wide and weighs 1.5 tons. Morandi worked on ''Yankee Champion'' from 1983 to 1985. It was commissioned by the Oregon Percent for Art in Public Places Program in 1984 at a cost of $29,000, and was dedicated on October 24, 1985.

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was applied to its finished surface to prevent white scaling. A plaque below the sculpture contains the inscription: . According to the

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, which categorizes the sculpture as abstract, "responsibility" for ''Yankee Champion'' is shared with Portland State University's Art Department by Facilities Management. The university's Art Department is also listed as the work's owner. It was surveyed and deemed "well maintained" by Smithsonian's "

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" program in September 1993. The sculpture is installed at the intersection of Southwest 11th and Market, as of 2018.

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''Yankee Champion''
at Tom Morandi's official website
''Yankee Champion'', 1983
at cultureNOW
''Yankee Champion''
at the Oregon Public Percent for Art Digital Collection, University of Oregon Libraries
Portland Cultural Tours: Public Art Walking Tour

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