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The Art People Love: Stories of Richard S. Beyer's Life and His Sculpture
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The Art People Love: Stories of Richard S. Beyer's Life and His Sculpture Paperback - 1999

by Margaret W. Beyer; Foreword by Fred Bassetti


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We don't know their names. They don't appear to have much money. Where they work, what they believe in, how they vote--it's a mystery. These five anonymous adults, a child, and a dog (with a human face!) comprise a statue group by noted Pacific Northwest artist Richard Beyer called "People Waiting for the Interurban."

They're patient, having stood for 20 years at a congested intersection near Seattle's Fremont Bridge--one of the busiest drawbridges anywhere. They've been waiting, oblivious to cars, rumbling trucks, bus fumes, screeching brakes, bleating horns, bicyclists and pedestrians. The full-sized figures stand under a Victorian-style pergola expecting the arrival of Fremont's long-defunct trolley, which will never come. They stand, lost in their own world.

Since its dedication in May 1978, "People Waiting for the Interurban" has become the best known public sculpture in western Washington. People can't keep their hands off the cast aluminum figures--they're protected from rain with umbrellas, decked out in warm clothes when it snows, dressed up in Santa suits at Christmas time and party hats for New Year's, hold American flags on election day, and exhibit political signs and banners in response to current events. Seattle commuters take the Fremont route in the morning just to see "what's with" the statues. It's the kind of response that the artist has inspired in other communities, too, after the unveiling scores of works in parks, resorts, playgrounds, commercial buildings, and along city sidewalks.

The sculptures in brick, wood, and metal (particularly aluminum) portray icons and themes from Indian legends and Pacific Northwest history and lifeways. Distinct local creatures such as salmon, coyote, bear, Sasquatch, whales, and activities--storytelling, kissing, playing, watching TV--are a special inspiration to the artist. Persons of all ages interact with them--it's "the art people love."

The Art People Love is a perceptive, extensively illustrated overview of the work of the artist written by the person who knows him best--his wife, Margaret Beyer. In addition, The Art People Love serves as a guide to Rich Beyer's sculptures located throughout the Northwest. Besides presenting the artist's goals and views, Margaret Beyer highlights significant, and often controversial, issues in the selection and display of public art in the Pacific Northwest today.

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  • Title The Art People Love: Stories of Richard S. Beyer's Life and His Sculpture
  • Author Margaret W. Beyer; Foreword by Fred Bassetti
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Washington State University Press, Pullman
  • Date December 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780874221848 / 0874221846
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 10.51 x 0.35 in (22.91 x 26.70 x 0.89 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Washington
  • Library of Congress subjects Sculptors - United States, Beyer, Richard S.
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99052062
  • Dewey Decimal Code 730.92

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 149
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