Spring is finally here…the tree peony is opening! Certainly the queen of this garden… Live in the moment we read everywhere…and the moments delight us, amaze us, amuse us and sadden us ..which I guess is the point? The moments ARE the life? In a strange way maybe that’s what blogging is about for me…grabbing […]
The Louis Bunce show “Dialogue with Modernism” closed at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art Sunday, with curator Roger Hull leading one last gallery tour. Here’s Roger talking about Portland painter George Johanson’s portrait of Louis and one of Bunce’s beautiful Harold Street paintings (on the right)… and here’s a snapshot of Louis talking intently […]
I guess if you have read this blog a time or two you know that looking at art is a major part of my universe. Just reviewing this past week, I see all the ways art enlivens my own life and thinking and experience, and I hope this is true for you too. As we […]
On January 20th, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. (in the Paulus Lecture Hall) art historian/curator Roger Hull will give a slide talk about the work of the Portland Painter Louis Bunce (1907-1983) as the show opens its two month run at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem. Available on that occasion (and afterward) will […]
Luckily there is still PLENTY of time for you to get to this stunning little show, part one of the Louis Bunce season at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art this winter, sequestered on the second floor in the print study room. This show opened November 5th and will run until January 29th…only overlapping with […]
Roger Hull has been researching, writing, interviewing and thinking about the Portland modernist painter Louis Bunce for 3 years, at least. As usual I’ve had the most interesting time tagging along to lenders, archives, museums and galleries as Roger pulled together the story of Bunce’s life and work…a VERY fascinating story. The book, “Louis Bunce: […]
And by that I mean the verb, not the noun. I consider it one of the real privileges I have to tag along with R when he’s off to interview an artist (future interviewees–I don’t always go, only sometimes.)…we smile and chat, he goes into to interview mode and I look and look. All good. […]
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 […]
Saturday Happy Hour was at Washington High School…now home to bars, restaurants, music venues, offices all with the feel of the old high school… followed by dinner with loved ones. Sunday brunch at Rae’s Lakeview…no lake, no view, lots of mimosas and hipsters…we snuck in before the crowd… and then off to the Portland Art […]
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 […]
On The Way 