I’m in love with Sue-Del’s Akebana cherry tree, and we’d set Monday as the day I might come out and take a look. She and John planted it when it was a “whip” no bigger than her finger. Now it sits majestically with it’s columns (designed by architect friend Bill Lindburg) and although the buds […]
Category: Artists
Manuel Izquierdo in the 1980’s…
R received this gorgeous photo of Manuel from the mid-1980’s this week. It was taken by Portland photographer Aaron Johanson, and besides being a photo of R’s focus subject of this year, it’s a just a beautifully composed photo…interesting to look at even if you didn’t know a single thing about Manuel. The piece behind […]
One More Week for the Marie Watt Show…
The Marie Watt show “Lodge” at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem is coming to a close this Sunday…but the museum IS open Sunday, from 1:00 to 5:00. Better go take a look…the show will leave Salem and travel to the Tacoma Art Museum…
Gathering Steam…
Thanks readers, for all the good birthday wishes. It was a busy week last week including a few meetings (possibly you can tell where I was sitting?)… and here’s my ukulele teacher Ron with HIS birthday present (the day before)…an electronic bass ukulele! Rock on…(and he will) Sharon and I went to ukulele “graduation” (well..it’s […]
Art Sleuths…Alert….
In 1959 there was an exposition celebrating Oregon’s centennial in north Portland along the Columbia river in the Kenton neighborhood…”The Oregon Centennial Exposition and Trade Fair”. The building pictured here, the Forest Products Pavilion, was designed by John Storrs and was built as a permanent structure, though has since been torn down. Inside the Pavilion […]
Rothko, “Red”, and a day away…
Today we took a “vacation” day. We went to a matinee at Portland Center stage….haven’t been there yet? Do go… we went to see “Red” a play by John Logan about the painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970). The play was fascinating, mordant, funny…worth the trip up I-5… and then on to the Portland Art Museum where […]
The Amazing Way Life Is…
Still on the Manuel Izquierdo trail. For MONTHS R has been searching for a sculpture that was at the Seattle World’s Fair “Century 21” in 1962, which was called “Figure”. He had a photocopy of a B&W photo showing the piece… but nobody knew where it was. Katrina at Laura Russo tried to track it […]
Manuel Izquierdo…detective work…
If I wrote everyday about what goes on when a writer is in research mode, I couldn’t really get at it…that’s where images are so very helpful… Here is an update on the progress R is making on his monograph on Manuel Izquierdo and his work. Last week R visited Manuel’s daughter Sara at Manuel’s […]
Marie Watt at the Hallie Ford Museum…
My final picture of the 2012 version of “Dwelling” with the artist Marie Watt, her daughter Evelyn, and the big stack o’ blankets. Friday night was the ceremonial opening of the show, delayed for a month until Evelyn was born and Marie could be here from New York. Marie spoke interestingly about her work and […]
Our Correspondents….
So…not only are WE scouring the state for Manuel Izquierdo sculptures, our friends are on alert too…this week turned up these two images for R’s growing list: this piece dates from 1996 and is located at Chemeketa Community College. Cynthia teaches there and sent this image and then Liz was at the antique show in […]
On The Way 