1991 Erceg biography

Title
1991 Erceg biography
LC Subject
Art--Documentation Biography
Creator
Erceg, Ruza
Description
1 p. Ruza Erceg's 1991 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 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
Date
1975/2012
Identifier
1991_ohsu_movable-col_08d_a02
Item Locator
ERC: 91-9; ERC: 91-10
Accession Number
1991_ohsu_movable-col_08d_a02
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 Health Sciences University, University Hospital South Expansion Movable Collection. Portland Oregon 1991_ohsu_movable-col Distant Village; The Potato Farm
Has Version
black and white; documents
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
Grayscale