The copper statue Portlandia*

Portlandia is a sculpture by Raymond Kaskey located above the entrance of the Portland Building. It is notable for being the second largest copper repoussé statue in the United States after the Statue of Liberty. Installed in September 1985 after being floated down the Willamette River on a barge, Portlandia is based on the design of the city seal. It depicts a woman in classical clothes with a trident reaching down with right hand to greet visitors to the building.

Occasionally, there are suggestions to move the statue to a more visible location, but these have come to nothing and the sculptor states that he designed the statue for its location and would not approve of moving it.

It has also been claimed that Portlandia's relatively low profile results from sculptor Kaskey's close guarding of his intellectual property. Unlike the Statue of Liberty, Portlandia may not be reproduced for uses such as key chains or T-shirts, because the rights to the image of Portlandia remain the sole property of the sculptor.

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