Bringing Up the Team

Title: Bringing Up the Team
LC Subject: Painting Watercolor painting Watercolorists Impressionism (Art) Wagon trains Horses painting (image-making) paintings (visual works) water-colors (paintings)
Creator: Tyler, Phil
Description: An impressionistic rendering of a man driving a team of two horses toward the hitch of a covered wagon. Phil Tyler; bungin' up the team; state capital (1970) Phil Tyler was born in Alabama. Eventually he moved west and settled on a small ranch at the base of Mt. Hood. A painter of the cowboy life, his subjects come from personal experience with that life. HORSEMAN focuses on a lone horsemen cantering across a pale green, light-washed space. The background is simply a wash of color which modulates from soft green to soft brown. The horse and rider are carefully and lovingly delineated from curb bit, to girth, to chaps. The acquisition of this work was made possible by Oregon's Percent for Art in Public Places program which is administered by the Oregon Arts Commission. 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: Oregon State Capitol >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 900 Court Street N.E., Salem, Oregon
Award Date: 1975
Identifier: 1976_state_capital_vol-III_20_a01
Item Locator: TYL; 77-68
Accession Number: 1976_state_capital_vol-III_20_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Tyler, Phil
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Material: Painting watercolor on Paper
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1976-78 State Capitol Wings, vol III, Salem Oregon 1976_state_capital_vol-III
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: room 378, beside electrical equipment
Color Space: RGB