City Streets #6
- Title
- City Streets #6
- LC Subject
- Painting Figure painting Figurative painting painting (image-making) paintings (visual works) oil paintings (visual works)
- Creator
- Coe, Margaret
- Description
- A crowded city street depicted in bright, primary colors. Several human faces emerge from the foreground. City Streets #6; oil; 48 x 72 inches 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
- Location
- William W. Knight Law Center >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 1515 Agate Street, Eugene Oregon
- Award Date
- 1999
- Identifier
- 1998_uo_knight-law_15_a01
- Accession Number
- 1998_uo_knight-law_15_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Coe, Margaret
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 53 x 77 inches
- Material
- Painting oil
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1998-1999 University of Oregon Knight Law Center moveable and integrated artwork 1998_uo_knight-law
- 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/ ground floor atrium, left of entrance
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- I set up 3 contrasting color zones in City Streets #6 that function as spatial zones. The top of the picture is light in value and dominated by yellow. The shapes suggest city buildings. Studies of buildings from Portland were the starting point for this area, but after much improvisation the area suggested a Mediterranean village. The standing figures in the multicolored middle ground are dominated by the large red shape of one man's jacket. These figures were derived from a photo I took in Portland's old town. As these figures developed they came to remind me of the type of African sculpture that inspired cubism. The lower half and foreground is dominated by the colors blue and black. The figures symbolize the literati of French café society. Their presence is less than real. They are derived from images of painters that I particularly admire. Max Beckman is on the left and Marsden Hartley is on the right. There's a glimpse of Dora Maar's head in the middle and of her hand on the right. The series of which this painting is a part combines the reality of street life in the late 90's with a reverent tribute to the European and American moderns. (Coe, 1999)
