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1. Untitled (DiFranco)
Untitled (DiFranco)
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A black-and-white photograph showing a view through the living-room window from the porch of a white house. A white chair sits on the porch in front of the window., 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
2. Smell the Rain
Smell the Rain
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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
3. Governor Tom McCall's Endowed Chair, Horner Museum, Corvallis, Oregon, 1974
Governor Tom McCall's Endowed Chair, Horner Museum, Corvallis, Oregon, 1974
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