Untitled, (sculpture).

Untitled, (sculpture).

Therrien, Norman, 1935- , sculptor.

Berman, Richard, landscape architect.

Boothbay Foundry, founder.

Moriece and Gary Landscape Architects, architectural firm.

Untitled, (sculpture).

Sculpture, (sculpture).

Gears, (sculpture).

Children's Jungle Gym, (sculpture).

Headless Dinosaur, (sculpture).

Commissioned July 20, 1976. 1976-1977. Installed June 1977. Relocated Oct. 25, 1982. Relocated 1990.

Sculpture: mill machinery, painted; Face: cast bronze; Base: concrete.

Sculpture: approx. H. 8 ft. x W. 60 ft.; Base: approx. D. 4 ft. (5,000 lbs.).

(Signature in letters made of tools is welded between two horizontal pipes at the bottom right of the first section) signed Founder's mark appears.

Abstract sculpture is comprised of wheels, gears, shafts and other machinery parts salvaged local mills, painted yellow, blue, green, red and white. A single face of a mill worker is installed among the parts. The five sections of the sculpture were welded to a framework and set into the ground in concrete pylons.

Allegory -- Place -- Maine

Occupation -- Industry -- Milling

Figure -- Fragment -- Face

Outdoor Sculpture -- Maine -- Lewiston

Administered by City of Lewiston, Office of the Mayor and City Council, City Hall, Park Street, Lewiston, Maine 04240

Located Lewiston Gravel Pit, Crusher Station, Goddard Road off Alfred Plourde Highway, Lewiston, Maine

Formerly located Lewiston Shredder Plant, Solid Waste Facility, Lewiston River Road, Lewiston, Maine 1982-1990.

Originally installed Heritage Park, Main Street at North Bridge, Lewiston, Maine 1977-1982.

Commissioned in 1976 for the new Heritage Park. Intended to represent the City's milling industry, the sculpture is constructed primarily of obsolete machine parts from the Cowan, Libby and Bates mills. The cost was $11,000. $8,800 came from a grant from the Maine Arts Commission and the remainder was raised through private donations. The Design Committee approved the model in 1975 and the artist was contracted in 1976. After a change in Mayoral administration in April 1977, the original Design Committee was replaced by the Lewiston Historic Commission. Members of the Commission and others visited the artist's foundry in May 1977 and approved the work in progress. The sculpture caused immediate controversy upon installation, as a group of citizens felt that it did not justly represent the City, and petitioned unsuccessfully to have it removed.

With the reconstruction of North Bridge and Main Street, the sculpture was moved in 1982 to an indoor facility at the Lewiston Shredder. The disassembled sculpture was moved outdoors in 1990 to a grassy knoll beside the City's Crusher Plant and gravel pit. It now stands in five separate pieces or sections, not in their original order. IAS files include related articles from the Lewiston Sun and the Lewiston Times which detail the sculpture's history and the controversy surrounding it.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maine survey, 1994.

For model see: ME000380.

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