We picked up Willamette University Archivist Mary McRobinson this morning and headed up to Portland to visit Mardy Widman.
The Widman family has donated Portland painter Harry Widman’s archival papers and materials to the Pacific Northwest Artists Archive (PNAA) at Willamette. Today we were going up with Mary to see Harry’s studio, the breadth of the material being donated, and to chat with Harry’s wife artist Mardy Widman. We arrived at the studio mid-morning of a blazingly beautiful fall day…reminding ourselves that Harry has been gone from us for about a year now, but the place is imprinted with his life and images.
The studio remains a wondrous (though now very organized) place…here seen with Roger looking at some Manuel Izquierdo plaster sculptures Mardy is going to repair…
The brushes look like a still-life this year…
Mardy and Roger and Mary looked at the many piles and files of material…
which included these amazing, delightful and informative bits of ephemera…a painter’s notes to himself…
then the beautiful lunch spread…
and a view of three big abstracts of Harry’s that have come to life…the yellow one…
the red one…
and the green one.
We noted one of Mardy’s terrific embroidery pieces…
saw the drawing that had been traded for service and returned after Harry’s death…
and said our goodbyes to Harry and Mardy’s beautiful place…
On The Way 
. . .such a generous and lovely “sharing” even for those of us, who know just you and Roger……even enjoyed “the lunch”……blessings….
Incredible work. Thanks for sharing!
Are those Hess sculptures in the photos? I thought so when I saw them, then saw Robert’s name in the “related items” notes.
Enjoyed the little display, I really liked the still paint bush shot slipped in.
a touching post, bonnie. beautiful and powerful too. we are grateful to you for your documentation of these moments, past and present.