Off to Portland today on the Louis Bunce trail…and other artistic endeavors. A beautiful sunny day at the end of spring…we visited a Portland collector to look at his Louis Bunce paintings that R might borrow for the 2017 show of Bunce’s work at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. He has some real beauties […]
Tag: Art
Road Trip
A busy week here getting ready to head out…some ukulele playing in Monterey, a stop in Sonoma to look at quilts, departure is imminent. I’ll just leave you with a few little Louis Bunce gouaches we ran across. More news from the road…. rescue quilt almost done… Bye bye…
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, […]
Currently on View
We went to “the Museum” last night…in our neighborhood that would be the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. There’s a loaned Andre Derain oil on view that is lovely, “Montreuil-Sur-Mer…Derain a fauvist who painted often with Matisse, was 29 when he painted this. Plus a nice Robert Rauschenberg screenprint from 1970, “Features from Currents”…a 2014 […]
Portland Art Day
It’s been a while since we had the luxury of just random looking, but today was such a day…we started with Fay Jones…up for another week at Laura Russo Gallery…the work had much in it that “spoke” to me…acrylic on paper…strange narrative…intriguing cast of characters…I love her work. on to George and Phyllis Johanson’s for […]
“Our” Museums
Last week in Washington DC we visited three of the many wonderful national museums there, all available to citizens and visitors from other countries (and there were MANY such visitors last week) FREE of charge. We were in DC at the Smithsonian Archive of American Art (more about that soon) researching Portland painter Louis Bunce. […]
Totally Random Friday…
No organized thoughts tonight. No real focus. So many things and events, moments, people, streaking through my brain…images to tell the tale…a visit to the Saward Collection… Henk Pander… William Givler… George Johanson…white paintings… Harry Widman… Ruth Patterson Hart SRH… Barbara Rowland… Bru… RPH… Interlude… Salem Sketchers… the taxes… Reading and thinking… early morning… RPH […]
Barbara Rowland, 1948 – 2015
The photographer Barbara Rowland was such a talented presence in our art community. I met her at the first Project Space, some years ago. She walked around and around Salem taking photos, was never without a camera. Because she was a wily photographer she was also good at avoiding being photographed herself…but I did get […]
BLINK
Well if you blinked this week you’ve almost missed it…Mary Lou Zeek’s current POP-UP gallery show, “BLINK”, which is a nice show…four rooms of painting, sculpture, work on paper…a wide variety of artists represented…a handsome show. I went to the artists’ reception and of course it was too crowded and filled with friends for very […]
Clay Ball
Last night was the annual Clay Ball art auction to benefit the Salem Art Association. Money was raised, art changed hands, friends were greeted… But the fun this year was the hats…glamorous or fanciful… some chose to wear “virtual” hats…(including Clay Ball originator Mary Lou Zeek who was thinking about her upcoming pop-up art show […]
On The Way 