Chippewa River
- Title
- Chippewa River
- LC Subject
- Painting Painting, Abstract oil painting (technique) oil paintings (visual works) painting (image-making) paintings (visual works)
- Creator
- Gunn, Jef
- Description
- An abstract painting that is mostly blue, with a white thin tree trunk with branches in the middle. Below the blue paint is mostly black, and next to the blue paint is white and yellow paint. Jef Gunn; Chippewa River; 1993; 53 1/4x48 3/4; encaustic on wood Jef Gunn is a painter, printmaker and sometimes sculptor, who has worked in Portland, Oregon. Gunn attends to the relationship between consciousness and the phenomenal world, expressed in simple large forms of Nature drawn from memory of experience in wilderness and urban environs, concentrated into shapes, text, pattern and signs. 'I don't know if I care much about self expression. In relation to the wilderness or the city, what is a self? Art is mind revealing mind.' info@jefgunn.com 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
- View
- full
- Location
- Oregon Health and Science University >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland Oregon
- Date
- 1975/2012
- Identifier
- 1995_portland_ohsu_a-h_25_a01
- Accession Number
- 1995_portland_ohsu_a-h_25_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Gunn, Jef
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 53 x 49 inches
- Material
- Painting encaustic on wood (with saw blade); oil paint in a base of beeswax applied directly to bare wood
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1995 Oregon Health Sciences University. Artists A-H, Portland Oregon 1995_portland_ohsu_a-h
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) was formed in 1974 as the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center. It was renamed Oregon Health Sciences University in 1981 and took its current name in 2001, as part of a merger with the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in Beaverton.<br><br>For a map of OHSU's Marquam Campus, see http://www.ohsu.edu/about/campusmap.pdf
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- Susan, my wife, is from Central Michigan, from the Chippewa River. In the summer that river took my attention. I sensed the deep source within the current (she told me there is a spring in the river), and also a presence in the air of the morning hot forest. After painting this I found a reproduction of a piece by Christoforo Simone Del Crocefissi (A.D. 1350) called "The Dream of the Virgin." She is asleep on a bed of red and gold brocade in a black (!) gown. And from her belly the "Tree of Redemption" springs. (Gunn, 1995)
