A still-life scene that depicts three glass inkwells holding a hodge podge of blooms, including a rose, a daffodil, several purple buds, and a white one with an orange center. They sit on a striped lilac tablecloth against a black background., Glass Garden; Carol Riley; lithograph with handcoloring; 17 x 17 inches; 1988, http://www.carolriley.com/, 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
This print depicts interaction between a fish form and a bird form, rendered in print with the appearance of scratchings through deep black space., Frank Boyden was born 1942, in Portland, OR. He attended Yale University, School of Art, achieving a M.F.A. and B.F.A., in Painting, 1968. In 1965, he attended Colorado College, where he received a B.A. in Art., http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/boyden.html, 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/
Dark, rich colors compose what appears to be a living room scene with two people crouched on the floor atop a colorful rug. An overstuffed armchair sits in the background, and the people seem to sit amongst stacks of books. What appears to be a window on the right-hand side of the picture plane reveals a view of a stand of birch trees. This is one of two views of this artwork. Variations between duplicate images relate directly to original source materials., Lithograph; 22 x30 inches, http://www.redwingstanza.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 blue, domed hat, simply outlined in black, sits next to a two-tone block of blue., Michele Russo; hat; 30x38 inches; lithograph; revenue bldg., Michele Russo was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1909. In 1930, he enrolled at Yale University and received a B.F.A. degree in painting in 1934. During the depression years he was employed at a muralist through a Works Progress Administration project and in this capacity executed murals in several Connecticut schools. In 1937, Russo left Connecticut to accept a fellowship to study with Boardman Robinson and George Biddle at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado for one year. During the next ten years he was a social activist and worked for the Federal Education project in Connecticut. In the fall of 1947, Russo moved to Portland and was hired by the Museum Art School the following year to teach painting and art history, remaining on the staff until he retired in 1974. During his tenure at the Museum Art School he became known as Portland's most articulate voice of artists' political, social and artistic rights. In the 1950's, along with friends, he started a co-op op professional artists called Artists Equity. In recent years Russo has been active in various organizations to make art a more visible part of the cultural life in the Northwest; he was one of the original founders of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts. In 1975, he was Chairman of the Oregon Committee for Art in Public Places. In 1977, he was appointed to the Metropolitan Arts Commission; the first artists so honored. (Unknown, 1995), http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/russo83.htm; http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/russo.html, 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
This print depicts interaction between a fish form and a bird form, rendered in print with the appearance of scratchings through deep black space., Frank Boyden; Changes VIII; 11 x 8 inches, Frank Boyden was born 1942, in Portland, OR. He attended Yale University, School of Art, achieving a M.F.A. and B.F.A., in Painting, 1968. In 1965, he attended Colorado College, where he received a B.A. in Art., http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/boyden.html, 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/
A mostly black and white rendering of a woodland scene, subtley accented with bluish-green and a smidgen of yellow., In the Woods; Bill Givler; State Capitol, 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
This color print is comprised of several different geometric sections. The background color is a top-to-bottom, gradated forest green. In the top two-thirds of the picture plane sits a top-to-bottom, gradated turqoise square containing a peach rose in full bloom. The remaining bottom third of the picture plane is occupied by a complex, geometrically patterned area that resembles a section from a circuit board, composed in dark forest green, turqoise, mauves, and white., Rose Matrix II; David F. Haidle; litho; 20 x 26 inches; Pendelton State Office Building, The Oregon Arts Commission has nine Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Eastern Oregon Regional Arts. You may view their website at http://www.artseast.org/
A stylized view of a suburban neighborhood with quilted lawns and yellow clouds in the blue sky above., Lorraine Krol; down commonwealth; state capital v II, http://www.spoke.com/public/pages/A/person/002/066/077, 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 pink rose contained in a black box hovers over a collection of geomertric, patterned shapes., David Haidle; Rose Matrix #10; Lithograph; Revenue Bldg; 1981; 26x33 inches, 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 visit their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
This print depicts interaction between a fish form and a bird form, rendered in print with the appearance of scratchings through deep black space., Frank Boyden was born 1942, in Portland, OR. He attended Yale University, School of Art, achieving a M.F.A. and B.F.A., in Painting, 1968. In 1965, he attended Colorado College, where he received a B.A. in Art., http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/boyden.html, 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/