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
This piece presents an intricate mixture of dots of color that work together to comprise an abstract, geometric picture plane. Colors used include pink, red, orange, green, blue, and white., Jack Portland; Sally; U of O Science Complex, Jack Portland graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1971 and has worked in a variety of media, most recently fresco. His interest in fresco comes from frequent trips to Italy and a summer fresco project he worked on at the Academic Caerit, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/portland.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/
An abstracted landscape scene depicting a rocky cavern in bright yellow with bright blue accents that match the shade of the sky above. The silhouettes of several bushes and what appear to be large rocks occupy the foreground., August Rimrock Field; D. Campbell Smith; oil/canvas; 80 x 60 inches; 1985, http://www.campbellsmiths.com/index.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
A geometric composition that utilizes thick brush strokes to create wavy lines and texture in the surface of the paint. This piece is rendered in pink, red, orange, yellow, blue, and green, with some black outlining. Predominant shapes inclue a skinny, green rectangle, a red triangle, and a blue triangle., James B Thompson; 1992; A mystery desired and sought I, (1996) James Thompson was born in Chicago, Il. He attended Ripon College, receiving a BA in Art/Art History and MFA from Washington University, School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO. He taught at Ripon College, University of Alaska and has been a Professor of, jthompso@willamette.edu, http://www.willamette.edu/cla/art/faculty/thompson/, 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 painting depicts a scene of a person clad in yellow, carrying a yellow umbrella walking hunched over an architecturally ornamented bridge. Dark trees and a gray sky that suggests a city skyline occupy the background. A yellow streak runs through the foreground on the left., Equinox; Oil; (28 x 28 inches); 1996; [no.] 2, Kay Lamoreux Buckner's work has been included in exhibits at the University of Maryland; Seattle Art Museum; St. John's College, Annapolis; Eastern New Mexico University; New Orleans Art Association; Salisbury State University, Maryland; Mercyhurst College, Pennsylvania; University of Washington; Austin Peay State University, Tennessee; Marietta College, Ohio; and Seattle Center. She has had One-woman shows at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle; University of Oregon Museum of Art; University of Idaho; Rockford College, Illinois; and Oregon State University. Her work is in public collections throughout the Pacific Northwest. She has an MFA degree from Clarement Graduate School. (Oregon Art Commission), The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
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/
This abstract piece depicts what appear to be yellow seed pods on a variegated red background. The upper left corner contains a collection of pink dots., Pink Hat; oil on birch; (24 x 24 inches); 1996, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
A visual design consisting of eleven separate six-by-six foot panels--each reflecting different sporting activities, and all created with acrylic paint, charcoal and color conte. Each panel is constructed of ¼ inch birch plywood backed and supported by a one-by-two-inch fir framework., Clint Brown; Working Out; Installation: OSU Dixon Rec. Center; 2008, Clint Brown has been a professor of art at Oregon State University, where he has taught drawing, painting, and sculpture since 1970. He served as a Fulbright Exchange Professor at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University) in Nottingham, England, and has taught art as Seattle Pacific University and University of Southern California. He is author of Drawing from Life (Harcourt Brace, second edition 1996) and editor of Artist to Artist: Inspiration and Advice from Artists Past and Present (Jackson Creek Press 1998). His art work had been exhibited widely throughout the West. His drawings on the AIDS pandemic, The Plague Drawings, traveled to Japan,, http://www.clintbrownartist.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
A long rectangle art piece set in neutral colors. There is a dark brown triangle in the middle and two spirals on each side, along with two zig-zag lines. There is a dark border bordering all of the sides except for the right side, which is bordered with an orange/brown color., Margot Voorhies Thompson; Mountain Arabesque; drawing, print collage; 28x84 inches; 1993; ThoM93120701, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/v_thompson.html, margot@margotvoorhiesthompson.com, http://www.margotvoorhiesthompson.com/html/home.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. 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/