Spring Poetic
- Title
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Spring Poetic
- LC Subject
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Painting
Landscape painting
Flowers
Flowers in art
painting (image-making)
paintings (visual works)
oil paintings (visual works)
- Creator
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Krause, LaVerne, 1924-1987
- Description
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An impressionistic landscape rendering composed in greens, purples, and blues arranged in an organized chaos. The ground plane is separated from the clouded skyline by a solid, thick blue line across the horizon. This is one of two views of this artwork. Variations between duplicate images relate directly to original source materials.
Oil on canvas; 44x48; 1979
LaVerne Krause, American painter and printmaker, was born 1924 in Portland, Oregon. She was awarded a tuition-fee scholarship at the University of Oregon where she undertook drawing and painting, studying with Andy Vincent, David McCosh, and Jack Wilkinson. She received her undergraduate degree in 1949, returning in 1966 to teach art, and by 1972 was a full professor. Professor Krause taught at the University of Oregon for 20 years until she retired in 1986. She died in Eugene, Oregon in 1987.
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- View
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detail
- Location
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Portland State Office Building >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
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800 N.E. Oregon, Portland Oregon
- Date
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1975/2012
- Identifier
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1980_port-state-off-bd_15_a02
- Item Locator
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KRA: 80-15
- Accession Number
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1980_port-state-off-bd_15_a02
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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Krause, LaVerne Erickson, 1924-1987
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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44 x 48 inches
- Material
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Painting
oil on canvas
- Set
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Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
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Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
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1980-1982 Portland State Office Building (A-M)
1980_port-state-off-bd
- Has Version
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slide; color
- Institution
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Oregon Arts Commission
University of Oregon
- Note
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See also the LaVerne Krause Gallery at the University of Oregon: http://krause.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=krause
first floor hall, north
- Color Space
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RGB
- Biographical Information
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Spring Poetic is a celebration in color of the exuberance of the greens and blues of the spring season, a renewal of hope after the long somber winter. The sky is clouded but reflects the vigor of the changes going on below (Krause, 1982).