On a trip to Portland Oregon I took a stolen moment to sketch the Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider Statue. is a bronze sculpture by American artist Alexander Phimister Proctor.
The equestrian statue was completed in 1922 and depicts Theodore Roosevelt as the leader of the cavalry regiment that fought during the Spanish–American War called the Rough Riders. The sculpture was cast in Brooklyn, New York, and was shipped by sea via the Panama Canal to avoid cutting the work into pieces.It was toppled by demonstrators during the Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage in October 2020. The statue is set to be restored and re-installed at a yet to be determined date.
The creation of the statue was documented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its 1922 film, The Making of a Bronze Statue.