Sculpture Stage is a 1976 welded
stainless steel sculpture by Bruce West, with assistance from poet Tom Cullerton, artist Jeff Tolbert and Hugh Mitchell, the landscape architect of Tom McCall Waterfront Park's Riverfront Plaza. It is located at the intersection of Southwest Ankeny and Southwest
Naito Parkway, just south of the
Burnside Bridge. The piece was commissioned for $28,000 by the Portland Development Commission, with funds from the
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. It is approximately 11 feet, 7 inches tall x 63 feet wide and was designed to cover the
Ankeny pumping station and serve a backdrop for a stage. The
Smithsonian Institution categorizes the sculpture as
abstract and describes it as a "curved relief in six sections with horizontal lines suggesting a landscape, and may be used as a backdrop for a stage". The work was surveyed and considered "well maintained" by Smithsonian's "
Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in April 1993. At that time, it was administered by the City of Portland's Development Commission. ==See also==