Point of View is a 2006 landmark public sculpture in bronze by James A. West which sits in a parklet named for the work of art,Point of View Park, inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States.[1] The piece depictsGeorge Washington and theSeneca leaderGuyasuta, with their weapons down, in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770, when the two men met while Washington was in the area examining land for future settlement along theOhio River.[2]
The work weighs 750 lbs. and cost $130,000 for materials with charitable donations of land, pedestal and artist time.[3]
Point of View sits on the edge ofMount Washington (Grandview Avenue at Sweetbriar Street) on the westernmost end ofGrand View Scenic Byway Park and the Grand View Scenic Byway, a designated Pennsylvaniascenic byway.[1]
The sculpture was dedicated on October 25, 2006, by mayorLuke Ravenstahl.[1]
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