Orange deciduous trees and dark green coniferous trees divide the foreground from the background, comprised of a rendering of Mount Hood in this watercolor landscape piece., (1970) Phil Tyler was born in Alabama. Eventually he moved west and settled on a small ranch at the base of Mt. Hood. A painter of the cowboy life, his subjects come from personal experience with that life. HORSEMAN focuses on a lone horsemen cantering across a pale green, light-washed space. The background is simply a wash of color which modulates from soft green to soft brown. The horse and rider are carefully and lovingly delineated from curb bit, to girth, to chaps. The acquisition of this work was made possible by Oregon's Percent for Art in Public Places program which is administered by the Oregon Arts Commission., 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
A watercolor painting of a mother holding her child. The mother is looking at her child, while the child looks at the viewer. The child is wearing a blue and green sleeveless top., Westerman; Mother and Baby; Feb. 24 1994, arne2@arnewesterman.com, http://www.arnewesterman.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A watercolor painting of a translucent white cup featuring stems of green leaves with a white flower, white buds, blue flowers, and red berries. The background is a mottled brown with two horizontal lines at the red base of the cup., Rene Rickabaugh; White-Cup; watercolor on paper; 26 3/4x21 3/4 inches; 1992; RicR94040413, Rene Rickabaugh, a Portland painter, studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and has taught watercolor there as well as at the University of Oregon. His work is noteworthy for meticulous execution and details, and an almost surrealistic personal vision., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A whimsical watercolor painting depicting five woman and three men dancing., Jerry Fenter; School of the Dance; watercolor; 29x28x1 inches; Dec. 1994, http://www.jerryfenter.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture
A watercolor painting of a cook dressed in a white shirt, white hat and dark pants. He is reading a newspaper. The cook is sitting outside a restaurant at a white square table. He is surrounded by three other green chairs., Westerman; Cook's Break; Feb. 24 1994, arne2@arnewesterman.com, http://www.arnewesterman.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
This naturalistic landscape painting depicts a view of a river that flows through a hilly, vegetated area., 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/
An abstract mixed media art piece in mostly cool color tones. Various shapes and colors are separated by thick lines of color., Frederick Heidel; Fantasy Garden of Ur; mixed media on paper; 37x47 inches; 1994; HeiF94092913, Former chairman of the art & architecture department and professor of art at Portland State University for over 25 years, Frederick Heidel is well known and respected for his work in glass and acrylic paintings. Throughout his career, Heidel has exhibited widely including major shows at the San Francisco Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, University of Oregon Art Museum, Smith/Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA and Glasgalene Kuhler, Amsterdam, Holland. The artist has also been awarded numerous commissions and is included in many public and private collections. A painter, Heidel began working in glass in 1967 after receiving a Chapelbrook Foundation Grant to work in the glass factories in Holland. Since that time, the artist has traveled to the studios of Glassobjekte Van Tetterode to execute glass sculpture from drawings he has prepared in his Portland studio. The exploration of this medium has lead Heidel to create sculpture of painted light and the nuances of the colorful laminated glass harkens to the painterly and fluid surfaces of his paintings. Heidel's works on paper reflect the translucent quality of his glass sculpture. (Unknown, 1991), http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/heidel.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture
A black square's edges are defined by a collection of teapots and other vessels, except the left-hand edge, which is occupied by a seashell. A silver baton rests atop a vessel on the bottom right., Big Square; Watercolor; 1989; 17 x 17 inches, http://pnca.edu/programs/bfa/faculty.php, http://www.froelickgallery.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=248, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A watercolor painting of a snowy mountainous landscape behind a sharply defined black, long wall. On the right of the black long wall is a strange blue eyed rectangular face. The face's smile is colored in the same blue hue. Below the face and black wall is a flowing blue wall, exhibiting wavy blue, green and white strokes of color. The lower wall may be a reflection of the upper black wall, in conjunction with the mountain landscape., Carl Hall; Winter Festival; justice, 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
A painting of a large brown-colored woman with blue hair, dressed in blue, holding a smaller human with vertical, wavy black and blue hair, attired in green clothing. Extending from the smaller human's face is a blueish ghosted face, with only the side of the face visible. In the lower right corner of the piece is a blue square with what looks like a nude female sitting, reaching upwards., Ancestor; Claudia Cave; Gouache on Paper; 41 x 33.25 inches; '92; CavC92062519, A well known Oregon artist, Claudia cave graduated with an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Idaho and A B.S. in art education from the Western Oregon State University. Her work has been exhibited at the Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Bellevue Art Museum as well as the Alternative Museum in New York. In addition, the artist's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Arts Commission, Seattle, WA; Microsoft, Seattle, WA; Salem Public Library, OR; University of Oregon, Eugene, or as well as many other public and private collections. Cave's paintings have been regularly reproduced in the Clinton Street Quarterly, Portland/Seattle. (Unknown, 1991), http://www.zeekgallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=80, 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