Salmon Gargoyle

Salmon Gargoyle
Artist Wayne Chabre
Year 1987 (1987)
Type Sculpture
Material Copper, stainless steel
Subject Salmon
Dimensions 1.5 m × 0.91 m × 2.6 m (5 ft × 3 ft × 8.5 ft)
Condition "Treatment needed" (1993)
Location Eugene, Oregon, United States
Owner University of Oregon

Salmon Gargoyle is an outdoor 1987 sculpture by Wayne Chabre, installed in 1988 on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States. The hammered copper head of a salmon with Kwakiutl Indian representation on its sides, built on a stainless steel frame, measures approximately 5 feet (1.5 m) x 3 feet (0.91 m) x 8.5 feet (2.6 m). It was surveyed and deemed "treatment needed" by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in March 1993. The sculpture is administered by the University of Oregon.[1]

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