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    		• Forsgren, John,
     
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    		• Holt, Richard,
     
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    		• Pacific Marble,
     
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    		• Abstract -- Geometric
     
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    		• Occupation -- Service
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Oregon -- Monmouth
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Oregon Police Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Forsgren, John, sculptor.
    Holt, Richard, contractor.
    Pacific Marble, fabricator.
    Title: 
    Oregon Police Memorial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Commissioned ca. 1985. Dedicated May 15, 1991.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Black granite, red granite and granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 7 ft. 2 in. x 12 ft. 5 in. x 60 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Incised on south end:) THEY DIED (On east side:) IN THE/SERVICE/OF MANKIND (On west side:) IN THE/DEFENSE OF/LIBERTY/EQUALITY/JUSTICE (Incised on east and west walls:) WITH THE REDEDICATION OF THE LIVING TO THE PRINCIPLES WHICH GUIDED THE DEAD, WE GIVE MEANING TO THEIR SACRIFICE (Names are incised into the walls) unsigned
    Description: 
    Memorial consists of two walls in a courtyard. The long east-west wall of black granite slopes from 72 in. to 4 in. and is slightly curved. The intersecting north-south wall is incised with quotes and the names of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The intersecting wall is primarily polished black granite, some unpublished granite and has red granite at the intersection of the other wall. Sixteen ornamental flowering pear trees (Pyrus Red Spire) are planted along the wall to symbolize that life continues.
    Subject: 
    Abstract -- Geometric
    Occupation -- Service -- Policeman
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Oregon -- Monmouth
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Oregon Police Academy, 500 North Monmouth Avenue, Monmouth, Oregon 97361
    Remarks: 
    The monument, which commemorates 135 Oregon police officers who died in the line of duty, cost approximately $100,000. It was commissioned by the Oregon Police Memorial Committee and funded by donations from police officers, businesses, organizations and private citizens including a $50,000 donation from the Fred Meyer Foundation. Monument was initiated by state senator Tony Meeker following a Police Memorial Day address. Meeker introduced a bill to establish a trust account for the monument with the state treasury. According to the artist, "the long curved wall is symbolic of either the officer's life or the family that is left behind. Broken apart by the loss, it continues after, but is changed." IAS files include a related article from the Statesman-Journal (Salem, OR), May 12, 1991.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Oregon survey, 1992.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS OR000333
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