Hebgen Brown Gulper

by Rick True

Made of Aluminum, Steel, Automotive Bearing, and Sign Vinyl

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Artist Statement

Artist Rick True has been a fly fisherman for the past 60 years. Apart from that, he is the retired Art Department Chair of Clackamas Community College in Oregon. He helped organize the first outdoor sculpture show in Lake Oswego and contributed to the development of the Chuck Clemens Memorial Sculpture Garden in Oregon City. Rick has participated in numerous sculpture shows in Oregon and Washington, and was a recipient of the Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship in 2000. “Hebgen Brown Gulper” is part of a series of works that are monuments to fond memories of fishing with family and friends on Hebgen Lake, Montana. Rick says: “There are massive hatches of Callibaetis (Mayflies). The browns (trout) swim along, gulping the flies, and I try to lay mine at their next gulp.”