Gate of the Twilight Dreamers: Secret Journey
- Title
- Gate of the Twilight Dreamers: Secret Journey
- LC Subject
- Prints Print makers Intaglio printing Intaglios Etching Landscape prints printmaking intaglio printing
- Creator
- Willson, Valerie
- Description
- This nighttime landscape piece depicts a view from what appears to be the silhouette of a screened-in porch entrance. It opens up onto a tree- and ridge-lined lake. In a separate section above the landscape scene is cloud and moon scene, offset with stylized lines. Gate: Secret Journey; Valerie Willson; intaglio/relief; 22 x 30 inches The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
- Location
- Western Oregon University >> Polk County >> Oregon >> United States Polk County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 345 N. Monmouth Ave., Monmouth Oregon
- Award Date
- 1988
- Identifier
- 1989_wosc_dorm_16_a01
- Item Locator
- WIL: 89-36
- Accession Number
- 1989_wosc_dorm_16_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Willson, Valerie
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 27 x 35 inches
- Material
- Printmaking intaglio; copper plate etching (3 plate) on rag paper
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1989 Western Oregon State College dormitory (I-Z) 1989_wosc_dorm
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- 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/ fourth floor lounge
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- This piece is about passages and transitions; about times of traveling through dark places and coming upon something or someplace which is magical and beautiful. I worked with myths in my imagery for many years. This is a movement twoard dealing with my own internal myths. (Willson, 1989)
