Red Rocks
- Title
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Red Rocks
- LC Subject
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Prints
Print makers
Wood
Landscape prints
printmaking
woodcuts (prints)
- Creator
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Mortensen, Gordon, 1938-
- Description
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This landscape scene depicts an outcropping of rocks in the middle of still, reflective water. A single tree grows up through the center of the piece, and the water is surrounded by other bushes. Angular rock formations and dotted hills provide a backdrop.
Red Rocks; Gordon Mortensen; reduction woodcut; 26.25 x 39 inches; $475
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- Location
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Western Oregon University >> Polk County >> Oregon >> United States
Polk County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
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345 N. Monmouth Ave., Monmouth Oregon
- Award Date
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1988
- Identifier
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1989_wosc_dorm_05_a01
- Item Locator
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MOR:89-26
- Accession Number
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1989_wosc_dorm_05_a01
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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Mortensen, Gordon
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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27 x 38 inches
- Material
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Printmaking
reduction woodcut
- Set
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Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
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Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
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1989 Western Oregon State College dormitory (I-Z)
1989_wosc_dorm
- Has Version
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slide; color
- Institution
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Oregon Arts Commission
University of Oregon
- Note
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This artwork was awarded in 1989 to Western Oregon State College (WOSC). WOSC became Western Oregon University in 1997. For a map of the campus, see http://www.wou.edu/wou/maps/
first floor lobby
- Color Space
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RGB
- Biographical Information
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I like color and contrasts, but color that can be changed. There is no reason why a tree has to be gree and rocks can be almost any color and any shape. (Mortensen, 1989)