| Elkhorn | |
| Artist: | Lee Kelly |
| Type: | Sculpture |
| Subject: | Deer |
| Height Imperial: | 10 |
| Width Imperial: | 8 |
| Length Imperial: | 8 |
| Metric Unit: | m |
| Imperial Unit: | ft |
| Condition: | "Treatment needed" (1993) |
| City: | West Haven-Sylvan, Oregon, United States |
| Coordinates: | 45.5108°N -122.7669°W |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Elkhorn is an outdoor 1979 sculpture by Lee Kelly, installed at Catlin Gabel School in West Haven-Sylvan, a census-designated place in Washington County and the Portland metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Lee Kelly's Elkhorn is a welded Cor-Ten steel sculpture installed west of Toad Hall at Catlin Gabel School in West Haven-Sylvan, Oregon. It was designed in 1978, the year his son with Bonnie Bronson, Jason,[1] died of leukemia. The sculpture was commissioned by Kelly's friends,[1] and dedicated in 1979 in his son's memory.[2] [3] The abstract, geometric work depicts a deer and features a three rectangular legs supporting a rectangular platform, with another rectangular shape suspended underneath the platform. It measures approximately 10feet x 8feet x 8feet. The sculpture's north leg has an inscription that reads and a plaque with the text, .[2]
The sculpture is administered by Catlin Gabel School. It was surveyed and deemed "treatment needed" by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in November 1993.[2]