''Pioneer Woman'', also known as ''Joy'', ''Joy (Pioneer Woman)'', the ''Laberee Memorial Fountain'', ''Mother/Child'' and ''Young Pioneer Woman'', is an outdoor 1956

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 ...

and drinking fountain by American artist

Frederic Littman Frederic Littman (1907–1979) was a Hungarian-American sculptor, whose large sculpted public artwork, frequent collaborations with architect Pietro Belluschi, and four decades of teaching "left a towering artistic legacy in Oregon". Life Littm ...

, located at

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Located at

on Southwest Fairmont Boulevard, ''Pioneer Woman'' is a bronze sculpture and drinking fountain designed by Frederic Littman and completed in 1956. It depicts a standing female figure with her hair flying behind her, holding a baby in her outstretched arms. The sculpture measures approximately x x and rests on a triangular granite base which measures approximately x x . The base sits in the center of a hexagonal foundation made of concrete and gravel. An inscription on the base reads "Littman"; another, around the sides of the base, reads: This Fountain a Gift / Of Florence and / George P. Laberee". The work was donated to the City of Portland by Florence and George P. Laberee. Its condition was deemed "treatment needed" by the

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" program in November 1993. According to Smithsonian, ''Pioneer Woman'' is administered by the City of Portland's Bureau of Parks and Recreation.

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