Wax casts of Boxer III

Title

Wax casts of Boxer III

Description

Two wax casts of "Boxer III" in the studio of the sculptor, Pat Castello. Creating a wax cast is an intermediate step in the process of creating a bronze sculpture: After making a clay model, the clay is wrapped in a mold, from which a wax cast is made. The wax casts are corrected and given finer details by the scupltor, who then chooses the best example, creates another mold around it, and then pours bronze into the mold. The wax melts out of the mold, leaving the bronze behind as the final stage of the sculpture.

Boxer III was a recreation of Pacific University's original bronze "Boxer" mascot, which was a bronze Chinese incense burner in the form of a qilin. The original statue was missing from 1969-2024. This photograph was taken by Bruce Bishop (Pacific University Class of 1968), who was among the group of alumni who funded the creation of Boxer III.

Identifier

PUA_MS95_513

Date

2018

Creator

Bishop, Bruce

Date Created

June 2018

Subject

Pacific University

Mascots

Spatial Coverage

Oregon

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Source

Pacific University Archives