1991 Erceg biography

Title: 1991 Erceg biography
LC Subject: Art--Documentation Biography
Creator: Erceg, Ruza
Description: 1 p. 1991 Ruza Erceg biography. 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
Date: 1975/2012
Identifier: 1991_milwaukie_olcc_05d_a01
Accession Number: 1991_milwaukie_olcc_05d_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Erceg, Ruza
Language: English
Type: Text
Format: image/tiff
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1991 Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) Milwaukie Oregon 1991_milwaukie_olcc Summer Day
Has Version: black and white; documents
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Color Space: Grayscale