Tonic for the Soul

Title: Tonic for the Soul
LC Subject: Photography Color photography Benches Beaches art photography color photography photography (discipline)
Creator: Marchant, Deborah DeWit
Description: A color photograph depicting a view from behind a red bench, in front of a concrete wall that separates it from the beach. Tonic for the Soul; color photograph Deborah DeWit was born in 1956 in Portland. Oregon. Four weeks after her birth, her mother returned with her to South America to re-join the rest of the family. She grew up traveling with her family and living in such places as the Philippines, New York, Minnesota, South Carolina, Florida, El Salvador, Colorado, Scotland and finally ended up in Portland in 1979. Photography was never a career choice and she entered Cornell University as an Agronomy major. After two years she decided to give her hobby, photography, more serious attention and moved to Colorado where her parents were living at the time. In order to finance her endeavors, she cheffed in restaurants for two years and in her spare time roamed the mountains outside Denver looking and experimenting with her camera. In 1978 she left for Scotland, where she worked on a farm, driving tractors, hoeing turnips and moving cattle from field to field. It was here that her real passion developed. The skies and the hills and the wildnes Deborahdewitmarchant@verizon.net The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
Location: Oregon Liquor Control Commission >> Clackamas County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 9079 S. E. McLoughlin Blvd., Milwaukie Oregon
Award Date: 1985
Identifier: 1991_milwaukie_olcc_04_a01
Item Locator: DEW: 91-4
Accession Number: 1991_milwaukie_olcc_04_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Marchant, Deborah DeWit
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 30 x 36
Material: Photography color photograph
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1991 Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) Milwaukie Oregon 1991_milwaukie_olcc
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: I am always looking for places of contemplation, and this place, in Tonic for the Soul, seems to be one of those (DeWit Marchant, 1991).