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A Mystery Artist Installed a Much-Discussed Statue of an Enslaved 19th-Century Explorer in Portland He Tells Us Why—and How—He Did It

A Mystery Artist Installed a Much-Discussed Statue of an Enslaved 19th-Century Explorer in Portland. He Tells Us Why and How He Did It The unauthorized monument memorializes York, a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, for being the first Black man to cross the continent to the Pacific. York (2010/2021). Photo courtesy of the artist. Last October, after a summer marked by a steady stream of protests in Portland, Oregon, supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, someone toppled a statue in Mount Tabor Park of Harvey Scott, a prominent 19th-century conservative and newspaper editor who opposed giving women the right to vote.

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