Columbia River Near Portland
- Title
- Columbia River Near Portland
- LC Subject
- Painting Landscape painters Landscape painting Rivers oil painting (technique) oil paintings (visual works) painting (image-making) paintings (visual works)
- Creator
- Hopper, Janette K.
- Description
- An oil painting of a wide, infinite landscape of grass and trees. A small lake is painted adjacent to a long river that flows through the middle of the green landscape. The top half of the painting is a sky full of various colored clouds. This is one of two images of the same piece. Irregularities between the pieces may reflect a difference in the source material. Oil on canvas 3 x 4 feet, 1988 janette.hopper@uncp.edu The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
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- full
- Location
- Lawrence Hall >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 1190 Franklin Street, Eugene Oregon
- Award Date
- 1988
- Identifier
- 1991_uo_lawrence-hall_10_a02
- Item Locator
- HO:91-10
- Accession Number
- 1991_uo_lawrence-hall_10_a02
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Hopper, Janette K.
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 3 x 4 feet
- Material
- Painting oil on canvas
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1991 University of Oregon Architecture & Allied Arts Lawrence Hall 1991_uo_lawrence-hall
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- An interactive campus map of the University of Oregon may be viewed at: http://map.uoregon.edu/ Main entry from University walk
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- "My desire is to make a strong positive comment on the beauty of the Northwest landscape, to express the passion and poetry of the sky, water and land, and to make landscape painting contemporary and universal. On cloudy days and early evening and morning the light melts the hard discordances of local color. Color harmonies that develop in my paintings at this time increasingly become descriptive carriers of emotion. Luminosity grows out of the relationship of warm and cool colors and the use of complements to mix lively greys. I prefer clouds because shadows can be invented on the earth according to my artistic intensions. The formal issues of space and composition must be worked out in the painting intuitively to reach an order that satisfies me. The dynamics, movement, and transition are directed by the brush with articulate consistency. Collections of my reflections through the physical technique express my individual persona. I love the Columbia River Gorge - you that know, the river close to Portland will recognize 'Rooster Rock' in the distance, a small projection in the river - the movement of the clouds, the shadows, the reflections cause me to chose the unknown qualities of nature as symbol and vocabulary for expressing my own inner world. Thanks for the opportunity to share my work with you. If I can be more informative, please let me know." Hopper, 1991
