Smell the Rain

Title: Smell the Rain
LC Subject: Photography Art and photography Color photography Landscape photography Chairs Balconies color photography
Creator: Marchant, Deborah DeWit
Description: Smell the Rain is a color photograph depicting three empty chairs on a balcony overlooking a grassy plain. Mountains in the distance converge with an overcast sky provide a low key tone for the piece. Deborah DeWit; photograph; 2 sizes; ltd edition; 15x20 inches; 23x30 inches Deborah DeWit was born in 1956 in Portland. Oregon. Four weeks after her birth, her mother returned with her to South America to re-join the rest of the family. She grew up traveling with her family and living in such places as the Philippines, New York, Minnesota, South Carolina, Florida, El Salvador, Colorado, Scotland and finally ended up in Portland in 1979. Photography was never a career choice and she entered Cornell University as an Agronomy major. After two years she decided to give her hobby, photography, more serious attention and moved to Colorado where her parents were living at the time. In order to finance her endeavors, she cheffed in restaurants for two years and in her spare time roamed the mountains outside Denver looking and experimenting with her camera. In 1978 she left for Scotland, where she worked on a farm, driving tractors, hoeing turnips and moving cattle from field to field. It was here that her real passion developed. The skies and the hills and the wildnes 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 Department of Human Services >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 155 Cottage St. N. E., Salem Oregon
Date: 1975/2012
Identifier: 1982_salem_exe-bldg_02_a01x
Item Locator: DEW: 90-1
Accession Number: 1982_salem_exe-bldg_02_a01x
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Marchant, Deborah DeWit
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Measurements: 23 x 30 inches
Material: Photography Color photographic print; Kodak EP2 process, Fuji 100 ASA film. Mounted on acid-free 4-ply board; lacquered with V-V inhibiting lacquer.
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1982 Executive Building, Salem Oregon 1982_salem_exe-bldg
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: For directions to and map of Salem Executive Building, see http://egov.oregon.gov/DAS/docs/Exec-Bldg-Map.application/pdf
Color Space: RGB