On the whole this is NOT a season of good news, though at last the debates are finished. The other day we noticed that something super-nice is happening downtown though…from the point of view of preservationists like us. The building which housed the S&H green stamp store in the 70’s and 80’s is being restored! […]
Category: Architecture
TIMBERLINE LODGE
Oregon has SO many treasures that one’s summer schedule could be filled with just visiting places right here at home. If you haven’t been to Timberline Lodge up on the slopes of Mt. Hood though, let me suggest you think about going. It’s a beautiful and historic building, filled with important Oregon art, good food […]
Maya Lin and Sidney
Back in 2011 R and I went to the first of the Maya Lin “Confluence” pieces at Cape Disappointment. Last week on Sidney day we visited the second piece we have seen in Vancouver, WA…the “Land Bridge” and we liked it just as much. The walk up the Land Bridge piece begins at the historic […]
Oregon Federally Supported Art
We made a quick stop at the Multnomah County Library the other day for research purposes. Up in the Rare Book Room we were able to look at some WPA photos of the Oregon Federal art Projects. First, in these images of the Portland office, R noticed three Louis Bunce paintings on the wall (Bunce […]
Road trip to Wallace, Idaho
Time for the Wallace High School all-class reunion again. We packed all the important stuff and headed east/northeast… We stopped in Mosier in the Gorge…Louis Bunce spent a few summers in Mosier back in the 1930’s with the Givlers and others…R wanted to get a feel for it. We headed across Washington and by now […]
Rick Bartow
Luckily I’m giving you plenty of time…Rick Bartow’s show “Things You Know But Cannot Explain” is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus through August. If you love painting, if you love sculpture and construction, if you love Oregon, if you love the authentic point of view, […]
Zena Zezza
In November of 1974, in New York City, the artist Jean Dupuy spent 9 hours making soup and then invited people to come to The Kitchen, have some soup and bread and apple tart and watch 38 artists each present a 2 minute performance, reading, dance, musical piece, poem, story…whatever. It was called “Soup & […]
224 Cedar Street
Some houses are iconic for a family. Often they are houses that aren’t grand necessarily, but are places where life has been interestingly lived. There is such a house for the Hull family. It’s in Wallace, Idaho, a place totally unlike anyplace I’ve been…a place out of the big box-internet-fast food-stream of modern life. It […]
Sleuthing Louis Bunce
The first 40 pages of the initial draft are written for the monograph Roger Hull is writing about painter Louis Bunce (1907-1983). Bunce was active in the art life of Portland, Oregon, for some 50 years, spending 6 years during that time in New York City. He was a student at the Art Student’s League […]
Open Studios, Studio at the Mill
I took a new little studio this fall to do a drawing project away from my home studio. It was very economical, in an historic structure, plenty of parking, 4 minutes from home. It has been a pleasant and quiet place to work so far…and even though I share the space, I rarely coincide with […]
On The Way 