Louis Bunce has moved into a room in our heads these days, as R begins phase two of the intensive research and writing to prepare the show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in 2017, and the book (working title “Louis Bunce: Dialog with Modernism”). He’s wading through interviews, websites, newspaper reviews and other […]
Tag: George Johanson
Art in Portlandia: October
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 […]
Lee Kelly, Tom Prochaska, Sara Siestreem
Portland Art day…had to pick up my birthday painting…a little painting by David Selleck called “Doplar Radar” which totally cracks me up (you’d have to know my family and their love of weather reporting)… and then on to see Lee Kelly at Elizabeth Leach…and they are handsome, but we were completely beguiled by the platforms […]
Eunice Parsons Thinking Archivally
Eunice Parsons is considering giving her “papers” (and here I mean correspondence, etc., NOT all the paper that is the raw material for collage…!) to the Pacific Northwest Artists Archive at Willamette University. The University library and the University Archivist are committed to building this collection, housing the papers of artists who have worked in […]
Harry Widman at the Sovereign Collection….
Michael Parsons has taken over the Sovereign Collection Gallery (716 SW Madison, Portland), and is showing a nice selection of paintings, collages and assemblages by Portland artist Harry Widman. On Saturday Roger Hull, Widman’s biographer, and Bob Shotola (Harry’s long-time friend) were at the Gallery with Harry and quite a crowd of others to have […]
TWTWTW
Remember that TV show…”That Was The Week That Was?” So okay…the tile is back-ordered and the bathroom is going nowhere… so we moved on this week as best we could…starting with Constance Fowler (1907-1996), painter, print-maker, founder of the modern art department at Willamette University in 1938. R has curated an excellent Fowler show up […]
A museum weekend…
It was a museum weekend for our house…I’m sure you’ve seen the new banner installed on the west side of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art… and Saturday our family came down to see the show…Bruce and LeeAnn from Seattle, Doug, Marie, Emma and Finley from Portland, and Z & A. …and then home for […]
George and Manuel…
The final final FINAL manuscript proof went to the printer this afternoon for R’s book on Manuel Izquierdo. It will look like this (only R’s name will be on the front cover too): and yesterday George and Phyllis came down to look at the first two parts of the show, which are already up…see here…R […]
Manuel Izquierdo at the Hallie Ford Museum, Part 1
Part one of the Manuel Izquierdo show is up at the Hallie Ford Museum of art in the study gallery and the print study room upstairs. It will be up until mid-February, so you’ll have plenty of time to see the work. On January 18th the big main floor galleries will open with a retrospective […]
Public Art: ODOT
The Oregon Department of Transportation Building (originally built about 1950) underwent a renovation all year at Capitol and Center Streets, and we went by the other day to check it out. 1% of the cost of building or renovating a state building is spent on art for that building, which has resulted in a rich […]
