Good Ol’ Boys
- Title
- Good Ol’ Boys
- LC Subject
- Painting painting (image-making) paintings (visual works) oil paintings (visual works)
- Creator
- Thorsnes, Melinda
- Description
- An oil painting featuring six men, who appear to be celebrating. There is an American flag in the background. Good Ol' Boys; 1995; oil on canvas; Inv. #07 The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
- Location
- The Valley Library >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 121 The Valley Library, Corvallis Oregon
- Date
- 1975/2012
- Identifier
- 1995_osu_valley-library_62_a01
- Accession Number
- 1995_osu_valley-library_62_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Thorsnes, Melinda
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 17.5 x 21.5 inches
- Material
- Painting; oil on canvas
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1995 - 1997 Biiennium Valley Library Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon 1995_osu_valley-library
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- To view a map of the artwork location in context to Oregon State University, see http://oregonstate.edu/cw_tools/campusmap/locations.php
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- I work from personal photographs and images from popular culture. My paintings are autobiographical and have a strong narrative thread. In a sense they are mid-chapter stories with an elusive beginning and no predictable end. I find it difficult to write about specific work. If I were to give parameters to paintings in the Valley Library Art Collection, they would fall somewhere between Gary Larson, Subaran, Carl Hiassen and Alice Munro. Good Ol' Boys was my take on the ATF Picnic story. I work using very wet oil paint on fairly smooth canvas, which lends a certain excitement to the process. (Sort of like riding a headstrong horse - sometimes you get where you're going and sometimes you fall off, but it's always an adventure.)
