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- ↑ Kepferle, Amy. "Cascadia Weekly: When art goes outside". www.cascadiaweekly.com.
- ↑ Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, retrieved 2016-04-11
- ↑ "WWU's Outdoor Sculpture Collection Turns 50", Window (alumni magazine), Western Washington University Office of University Communications, Fall–Winter 2015
- ↑ Pacific Northwest, Michelin Travel Publications, 2000, p. 237, ISBN 2061584012
- ↑ Clark-Langager, Sarah A. (2002), Sculpture in Place: A Campus as Site, Western Washington University, p. 42–43, ISBN 1878237055