Oregon Vignette

Title: Oregon Vignette
LC Subject: Painting Fishes Water Plants painting (image-making) paintings (visual works) oil paintings (visual works)
Creator: Duryea, Suzanne, 1947-
Description: A profile view of a large, red fish occupies the right side of this piece. A bundle of yellow wheat hovers above rocks and water on the left side. Oregon Vignette; Suzanne Duryea; oil/canvas; 4 x 3 feet; 1988 "Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suzanne Duryea graduated in art history from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and continued to study painting at the University of California, Berkeley and Portland State University. Duryea has had one-person exhibitions at the Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle; Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College; Mayer Gallery, Marylhurst College as well several exhibitions at the Fountain Gallery, Portland. The artist has also been included in group exhibitions such as: The Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum; "Northwest '87", Seattle Art Museum and most recently the traveling exhibition, "Northhwest X Southwest: Painted Fictions" curated by the Palm Springs Deesert Museum. Suzanne Duryea has become known to Northwest art viewers for her rich oil paintings of animated objects personified in a narrative atmosphere of glowing color. Romantic yet humorous, these paintings emphasize a vigorous nature that is immortalized in pain, creating a symbolic tone. The glossy surfaces of the paintings on paper (22" x 30") become more textural on canvas as the actual working surface expands (7' x 5'). (Unknown, 1991) 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-vol-I_10_a01
Item Locator: DUR: 89-12
Accession Number: 1989_wosc_dorm-vol-I_10_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Duryea, Suzanne, 1947-
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 4 x 3 feet
Material: Painting oil paint with sand on canvas
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1989 WOSC (Western Oregon University) Dormitory, Vol. 1 (A-H) 1989_wosc_dorm-vol-I
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. <br> For a map of the campus, see http://www.wou.edu/wou/maps/ first floor conference room
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: The symbolism in this painting is a little more specific than is usual for me. Hopefully there is still room for different interpretations and enough mystery to keep it from being mural-like. (Duryea, 1989.)