Distant Village
- Title
- Distant Village
- LC Subject
- Painting Watercolorists Watercolor painting Dwellings Housing painting (image-making) paintings (visual works) watercolor (paint) water-colors (paintings)
- Creator
- Erceg, Ruza
- Description
- A watercolor painting of a village in earthtones. In front of the village are green strokes representing grass as well as a black-and-white picket fence. Above the village is a blue sky with black dotted lines that perhaps symbolize birds on a migratory route. Ruza Erceg; Distant Village; watercolor; 16x20 inches; 1984; ohsu movable 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/
- View
- full
- Location
- Oregon Health and Science University Hospital >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- (main campus) 3181 S. W. Sam Jackson Road, Portland Oregon
- Award Date
- 1984
- Identifier
- 1991_ohsu_movable-col_08_a01
- Item Locator
- ERC: 91-9
- Accession Number
- 1991_ohsu_movable-col_08_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Erceg, Ruza
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 16 x 20 inches
- Material
- Painting watercolor
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1991 Oregon Health Sciences University, University Hospital South Expansion Movable Collection. Portland Oregon 1991_ohsu_movable-col
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- In 1991, the University hospital was undergoing an expansion of its C-Wing; simultaneously three new neighborhood health clinics were nearing completion in Portland. Public art purchases for these projects were made possible by Oregon's Percent for Art program. <br>In 1996, "University Hospital" was renamed Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital. <br>For a map of OHSU's Marquam Campus, see http://www.ohsu.edu/about/campusmap.pdf
- Color Space
- RGB
