Red Passage

Title: Red Passage
LC Subject: Print makers Prints--Technique Paper, Handmade linocuts (prints) printmaking torinoko Japanese paper (handmade paper)
Creator: McLarty, Jack, 1919-
Description: Red Passage depicts various life forms, human and non-human, in a grid of seventy-seven square images. The progression of color change from orange to red goes in a diagnal from the bottom left to the upper right corner. Jack McLarty; red passage; 1978; color linocut; 15x23 in Jack McLarty has lived most of his life in Portland, Oregon. His family moved to Portland from Seattle in 1921. After attending the Museum Art School, he left Portland in 1940 to study at the American Artists School in New York. At the end of two years, McLarty decided New York did not suit him as a permanent home and returned to Portland. By 1945 he had reconnected with the Museum Art School accepting a teaching fellowship in lithography. He joined the regular faculty in 1947. McLarty and his wife, Barbara, opened the Image Gallery in 1961. (online biography obtained from Preservation of Oregon's Artistic Heritage–A Production of the Salem Art Association.) Other biography information available at http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/stories/139/jack-mclarty-40 The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Arts Council of Southern Oregon. You may view their website at http://www.artscouncilso.org/
Location: McNeal Hall >> Jackson County >> Oregon >> United States Jackson County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland Oregon <br> A map of this location may be viewed at http://www.sou.edu/map/flashmap.html
Award Date: 1978
Identifier: 1984_sosc_mcneil-pavilion_05_a01
Accession Number: 1984_sosc_mcneil-pavilion_05_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: McLarty, Jack
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 15 x 23 inches
Material: Printmaking linocut printed with oil ink on handmade Torinoko
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1984 Southern Oregon State College McNeil Pavilion 1984_sosc_mcneil-pavilion
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: This artwork was awarded to Southern Oregon State College in 1984. In 1997, Southern Oregon State College became Southern Oregon University. <br> For detailed information about the McNeil Pavilion, see http://www.sou.edu/sma/index.html
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: About the nature of visual and mental echos - Faces to masks, to cars, to highways, to tire tracks, to racks on hands, to people and animals on highways…. (McLarty, 1984)