Oregon has SO many treasures that one’s summer schedule could be filled with just visiting places right here at home. If you haven’t been to Timberline Lodge up on the slopes of Mt. Hood though, let me suggest you think about going. It’s a beautiful and historic building, filled with important Oregon art, good food […]
The work of a Salem group of women artists has been up at the Compass Gallery this month…me, Katy Viegland, Kathy Shen, Nancy Eng, Tory Brokenshire and Dayna Collins. We get together monthly, often to make work, sometimes for a brief road trip. A couple of times every year we “retreat” for four or so […]
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 […]
Still raining… and after we heard Jackie Johnson speak, we dashed over to Augen Gallery to hear George Johanson talk about his beautiful show of 24 reductive prints he’s been working on for a year or two… We had visited his studio about a year ago and saw the set up and method and the […]
We picked up Willamette University Archivist Mary McRobinson this morning and headed up to Portland to visit Mardy Widman. The Widman family has donated Portland painter Harry Widman’s archival papers and materials to the Pacific Northwest Artists Archive (PNAA) at Willamette. Today we were going up with Mary to see Harry’s studio, the breadth of […]
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, […]
It’s been four years since sculptor Robert Hess died and I’ve been thinking about him this week. I thought maybe I’d republish this blog post I wrote at the time of his death because I still appreciate him and miss him, I can still here his funny, hearty voice, and I like the thought of […]
An exciting day this week when Eunice Parsons brought her papers to the PNAA (Pacific Northwest Artists Archive) at the Willamette University Library. Roger Hull and archivist Mary McRobinson have been actively collecting the “papers” (correspondence, drawing books, clippings, photographs, exhibition announcements, cassette interviews) of Oregon artists since 1997…an invaluable resource for researchers working on […]
Portland painter Leonard Ruder died a few years ago after a long and productive life as a painter. He was born in 1917 in Detroit, Michigan, and studied art at The Cranbrook Academy there. He came west in the 1950’s with his artist friend Hank Kowert to study more, to paint, and to begin his […]
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