THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

Outdoor Sculpture & Building Ornamentation

Detail	Facing Johnson Hall, Summer 2004

This sculpture, located across from Johnson Hall, was dedicated with great ceremony in May 1919. The sculptor, Alexander Phimister Proctor (1862-1950), used a trapper from near Burns, Oregon, as his model. The 1918 bronze statue, mounted on a base of McKenzie River basalt, was a gift of Joseph N. Teal, Portland attorney.

Bibliography

Books and Parts of Books

• Proctor, Alexander Phimister. Alexander Phimister Proctor, sculptor in buckskin; an autobiography. Edited and with an introd. by Hester Elizabeth Proctor. Introd. by Vivian A. Paladin Publisher Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1971].

Newspaper Articles

• "Working on Teal statue; A. Phimister Proctor busy on model for Teal gift statue. (Pioneer father), Daily Emerald 4/26/17; 1.
• "Statue will stand amid Campus firs; "Location for Proctor's 'Pioneer' picked out." Daily Emerald 4/13/18; 1.
• "Pioneer statue to arrive soon; Daily Emerald." 4/10/19; 2; 2.
• "'Pioneer'" erected on Campus site; canvas-covered"; (father)." Daily Emerald 5/13/19; 1.
• "Pioneer statue, J. W. Teal's gift to Oregon, unveiled." Daily Emerald 5/22/19; 1.
• "Statue, the Pioneer, unveiled at Eugene." Oregonian 5/23/19, 10.  Full-text: Historic Oregon Newspapers.