Summer Day

Title: Summer Day
LC Subject: Watercolorists Watercolor painting Painting Impressionism (Art) painting (image-making) paintings (visual works) water-colors (paintings)
Creator: Erceg, Ruza
Description: A brightly colored, patchwork rendering of a road cutting through a group of white houses with red roofs. Summer Day; Watercolor; 1989; 17x21 inches Ruza Erceg In 1961, Ruza Erceg said to her daughter, Helen, "If I have paint brush, I start to make painting." Helen relayed this message to her brother Joseph, a graphic designer, who, that same day, bought her watercolors, brushes and paper. She immediately began to produce delightful, colorful images. Ruza was born in the fanning village of Imotski, Yugoslavia in 1898 and came to this country in 1922. She and her husband first settled in Pennsylvania then moved to Oregon. Ruza Erceg paints images of her past in Yugoslavia. They are soft and colorful images of rural scenes (farms, fields and farm houses), villages, white buildings with red tile roofs and an occasional painting of a sailboat or of a larger city. Her images are of no particular site but rather of a collective spirit of the land she left so long ago. Numerous paintings are surrounded with delightful painted borders which suggest a painted frame to contain the image. 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: 1989
Identifier: 1991_milwaukie_olcc_05_a01
Item Locator: ERC: 91-5
Accession Number: 1991_milwaukie_olcc_05_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Erceg, Ruza
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 17 x 21 inches
Material: Painting water color on paper
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