Born in Tennessee, spending his first year in Brooklyn, growing up in Salamanca, NY, and then Wallace, ID…Roger was on the move early. The oldest of six children, he had at least a couple of years on his own before the others arrived… Maybe that’s enough of the story except to say he is a […]
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The Manuscript Arrives!!!
Writing a book is a long and often arduous process…in R’s case a lot of fact-checking and just sitting and thinking, talking with friends/relatives/colleagues of the subject, arranging for photos to be taken, talking to collectors…LONG. But there are a few terrifically exciting moments and one such is the day the proofs arrive…TODAY for instance. […]
The Art Department….c. 1972…Willamette University…
Ran across this photo that I thought you locals might enjoy… here is the Willamette University Art Department in about 1972 or 73…left to right… Carl Hall (painter) Cameron Paulin (art historian) Roger Hull (art historian) and Robert Hess (sculptor)… but REALLY the most important figure in the group is the Manuel Izquierdo sculpture called […]
Functioning in the Heat…
R is high-functioning, as you know. Heat doesn’t seem to stop him. He doesn’t sit around complaining like some of us (ahem)…he just keeps on going. Here he is dancing with his cousin Lisa at Zach’s wedding (102 AT LEAST!) (The two of them used to write novels together when they were growing up in […]
Summers Past…
Consumed as we are by the flurry of summer activity around here, it’s kind of nice to check our long ago past activities…me as an “only child” (which didn’t last too long…) up near Ishpeming, MI… R helping his Dad white wash the basement for a TV room, with sister Carolyn possibly helping and Piatt […]
Bloomsday
Yesterday was “Bloomsday” when all over the world (but most especially in Dublin) devotees of James Joyce celebrate the master. Salem probably was never one of the hot beds of celebration historically, but when combined with the opening of Rex Amos’ show of collage, chine colle and ephemera at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, […]
Sketchbook “World Tour” and James Hill
Wow…yesterday was just total fun all the way…and a beautiful sunny day to boot. First we went to The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel (corner of 10th and Stark) where the Sketchbook World Tour 2012 is hanging out for three days. I had a sketchbook in the mix and wanted to go “check it out” […]
The Last Few Days…
Crazy days…too full…one day we zoomed to Portland for the dress rehearsal for the Oregon Children’s Theater play “Pinkalicious” (photos strictly forbidden) for which Ashton did the costumes. Before the play we visited a few favorites at the Portland Art Museum…Agnes Martin…too fabulous, and then this plaid panting knocked me out (by??…I forgot to write […]
Henk Pander and Roger Hull, a Conversation
Sunday was the last day for Henk Pander’s splendid retrospective “Memory and Modern Life” at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. At 2:00 Henk and Roger, mostly Henk of course, talked about Henk’s work, idea methods. it was a packed house…standing room only…and pretty interesting…the crowd was responsive and asked lots of questions: and the […]
Henk & Roger at PNCA
Roger “took it on the road” last night for his “last” (I doubt this…) lecture on Henk Pander, in Portland at PNCA. Art History is always frought with technical problems, it seems, but at PNCA the excellent Bobby was totally organized and then it was “show time”! with a nice Q&A afterwords… the last chance […]
On The Way 