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October 24, 2011 in News, Idaho
Sculpture stolen from downtown Coeur d’Alene
A sculpture displayed in downtown Coeur d’Alene as part of a public art program was stolen from a street corner last week.
“Great Blue Heron” by Spokane artist Rick Davis was stolen from the corner of Lakeside Avenue and Fourth Street sometime Thursday night or early Friday morning, said Steve Anthony, the city’s recreation director.
The owners of a restaurant on that corner noticed the sculpture missing when they arrived Friday morning, Anthony said. They called the city’s Downtown Association director, who called Anthony, who called the police, he said.
The sculpture was part of the city’s “ArtCurrents” program, in which sculptures were placed on city street corners in June and will remain for a year. They are offered for sale and the city receives 25 percent of any proceeds.
Davis creates his sculptures with scrap metal and had placed a value of $3,000 on the stolen blue heron. However, Anthony said, the metal would not be of value to thieves looking to make money through recycling. The city insures all the artwork, he said.
Whoever stole it sawed the sculpture off at the blue heron’s legs, which were made of rebar.
“A lot of people — artists, installers — put a significant effort into this,” Anthony said. “We’re going to have to … think about what kind of art we’re going to put downtown because we don’t want to eliminate the smaller pieces.”
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fishinjay on October 24 at 3:24 p.m.
I’ll never understand the desire of “common trash” to destroy things. I suppose a sculputure that added some character to our street corners was too much for some turd to accept.
RedCedar on October 24 at 7:50 p.m.
Oh really? With scrap iron running upwards of $300/ton, even a little piece of art is enough for a tweaker to buy one more hit. Everything made of metal is getting stolen these days, from old batteries to live power lines. I’d bet anything that the punks the stole the heron didn’t steal it so they could set it up in their living room and admire it.
misjustice on October 24 at 9:33 p.m.
Hard to set it up in their living room when they cut his feet off! What a bunch of losers!
kma on October 25 at 9:05 a.m.
What else do you expect from those that frequent the 17+ bars, just a bunch of drunken losers. Time to make the bar owners responsible for continually serving these drunks, even when they know they have had wayyyyy too much alcohol. Time to pull the liquor license of those that serve these drunks more alcohol and stop the drunken madness downtown.