Friday night was the opening of the two summer shows at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art here in Salem. The BIG summer show is the work of Portland sculptor Mel Katz, with also the very fine show of drawings by artists Christy Wyckoff and Tom Prochaska. Mel Katz was to speak at 5:00 but […]
We “scampered up” (as Harriet J. Connor used to say) to Portland Monday to see SRH and continue our training for a street Band… and for me to get to play with his toys… but we worked in a nice visit with George and Phyllis where we saw the big version of Johanson’s painting…recently back […]
When you get all the way to the west coast, you almost feel like you’ve gone a little bit back east, lots of trees, rivers, prettiness. But you have to go through the REAL west to get to the west coast…and it is an elegant landscape in our state. Friday, the start of a promised […]
After a brief visit with Z&A to deliver the quilt we headed home and on to Silverton, to the Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house known as the Gordon House. The house was built in 1963 after a design Wright made for Conrad and Evelyn Gordon in 1958 before he died. It originally sat on a […]
We heard this morning that Marge Riley has died…slipping away quietly after a long and productive life. Marge supported numerous Oregon artists and arts institutions, and in addition was a lively and interesting person. Collector, advocate, friend. A few years ago Marge donated a large part of her art collection to the Hallie Ford Museum […]
