''Sculpture Stage'' is an outdoor 1976 stainless steel sculpture by Bruce West, located in

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. The work was funded by the

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and is part of the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council.

Description and history

''Sculpture Stage'' is a 1976 welded stainless steel sculpture by Bruce West, with assistance from poet Tom Culberton, artist Jeff Tolbert and Hugh Mitchell, the landscape architect of Tom McCall Waterfront Park's Riverfront Plaza. It is located at the intersection of Southwest Ankeny and Southwest Naito Parkway, just south of the

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. The piece was commissioned for $28,000 by the Portland Development Commission, with funds from the

. It is approximately 11 feet, 7 inches tall x 63 feet wide and was designed to cover the Ankeny pumping station and serve a backdrop for a stage. The

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categorizes the sculpture as

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and describes it as a "curved relief in six sections with horizontal lines suggesting a landscape, and may be used as a backdrop for a stage". The work was surveyed and considered "well maintained" by Smithsonian's "

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" program in April 1993. At that time, it was administered by the City of Portland's Development Commission. Presently, the work is part of the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council.

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