Harvey W. Scott (sculpture) Harvey W. Scott (sculpture) Harvey W. Scott, or simply Harvey Scott, is a 1933 bronze sculpture by Gutzon Borglum depicting American pioneer, newspaper editor and historian Harvey W. Scott, located at Mount Tabor Park in the Mount Tabor neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. The statue is a bronze portrait of Harvey W. Scott, an American pioneer best known as the long-time editorialist of "The Oregonian", wearing a knee-length coat and with his right arm extended and pointing. It was designed by Gutzon Borglum (of Mount Rushmore fame), originally modeled in 1930, and dedicated in June 1933. Kunst Foundry served as the
Gutzon Borglum and urges strict immigration policies. Borglum was initially involved in the carving of Stone Mountain in Georgia. Borglum's nativist stances made him seem an ideologically sympathetic choice to carve a memorial to heroes of the Confederacy, planned for Stone Mountain, Georgia. In 1915, he was approached by the United Daughters of the Confederacy with a project for sculpting a high bust of General Robert E. Lee on the mountain's rockface. Borglum accepted, but told the committee, "Ladies, a twenty-foot head of Lee on that mountainside would look like a postage stamp on a barn door.'" Borglum's ideas eventually evolved into