Coast Spirit

Cover of the 1970 UVic Alumni Quarterly cover with Coast Spirit, by Elza Mayhew

Coast Spirit by Elza Mayhew, column in bronze

Coast Spirit by Elza Mayhew, during design in styrofoam

Coast Spirit by Elza Mayhew, in UVic Torch Magazine, 2024

Date: 1967
Size: H: 16' x W: 30" x D: 16"
Weight: 3992 lbs.
Casts: 1
Form: Column
Material: Bronze

Made for Canadian Centennial Celebrations in 1967, and exhibited outdoors at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver that summer. In 1968, Coast Spirit was sited at the University of Victoria in front of the McPherson Library. Gift of Walter Koerner and the Artist.

“Coast Spirit” is title of the Solarists album, 2008, music written in homage to the sculpture.

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