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241. 1991 Report on Edward Curtis Prints
1991 Report on Edward Curtis Prints
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1 p. 1991 Report by Christopher Cardozo, guest curator, on Curtis Edward prints., Born in 1868 in rural Wisconsin, Edward Sherrif Curtis moved with his family to Southern Minnesota before he reached the age of five. Photography was then a very new technology and an even more nascent art form, and Curtis was fascinated by it from a very early age. By the time he reached his teens he had built his own camera. By his mid-teens, Curtis had spent a great deal of time reading about and experimenting with photographic techniques and ideas. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Saint Paul, where he spent more than a year as an apprentice photographer. In 1887, his father's failing health caused the family to move to the Northwest. This move would later turn out to be a major factor in Curtis' subsequent interest in the American Indian. Thus, although he was large self-taught, Curtis was not only well-versed in the fundamentals of photography, but also was a serious and dedicated practitioner by the time he was twenty years old. During his lifetime, Curtis was widely acknowledged as a skilled portrait photographer, master printmaker, film-maker, lecturer, adventurer and mountaineer. Today, however, Curtis is primarily known as a master photographer and ethnographer of the North American Indian. This is undoubtedly as it should be, for he left us a photographic and ethnographic record unparalleled in the history of publishing. This massively ambitious undertaking entitled "The North American Indian" was the principal vehicle Curtis used to communicate his passionate obsession with recording the image, history, culture and spiritual life of the American Indian. This photo-ethnographic study compresses over two thousand original photographic prints (photogravures) as well as approximately six thousand pages of text. The project ultimately cost Curtis his family, his financial security, and his health. Nevertheless, he single-mindedly pursued his intense and powerful vision with an extraordinary sense of mission and thereby left us with an irreplaceable record which, after decades of obscurity, is once again appreciated as an extraordinary artistic and historical achievement. The fact that Curtis was able to make such an intimate record during the very period when the American Indian's way of life was being destroyed by the White man, makes his accomplishment all the more remarkable. (1987, Christopher Cardozo, Guest Curator for a Curtis exhibition as the Minnesota Museum of Art), 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
242. 1976 McLarty exhibition list
1976 McLarty exhibition list
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2 p. Jack McLarty's 1976 exhibiton list., Jack McLarty has lived most of his life in Portland, Oregon. His family moved to Portland from Seattle in 1921. After attending the Museum Art School, he left Portland in 1940 to study at the American Artists School in New York. At the end of two years, McLarty decided New York did not suit him as a permanent home and returned to Portland. By 1945 he had reconnected with the Museum Art School accepting a teaching fellowship in lithography. He joined the regular faculty in 1947. McLarty and his wife, Barbara, opened the Image Gallery in 1961. (online biography obtained from Preservation of Oregon's Artistic Heritage–A Production of the Salem Art Association.) Other biography information available at http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/stories/139/jack-mclarty-40, 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
243. 1976 Allen resume and exhibition list
1976 Allen resume and exhibition list
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2 p. 1976 Bonnie Allen resume and exhibition list., 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
244. 1976 Bloedel exhibition list
1976 Bloedel exhibition list
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5p. 1976 Joan Bloedel exhibition list., 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
245. Battle Man Study II
Battle Man Study II
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A bronze sculpture, roughly patinaed, that appears to represent some sort of mechanized device and/or process., Battle Man Study II; James Lee Hanson; Vancouver, WA, 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
246. Dormer
Dormer
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A view of a sloping roof with windowed dormer of an antiquated building from below, set against a dark, clouded sky., Dormer; Michael Burns; painting; Seattle, Watercolorist Mike Burns was educated at the University of Washington and Seattle Pacific College. He worked as an illustrator for The Boeing Company, Cole and Webster Advertising and the Washington National Guard. Burns painted old abandoned farms, schoolhouses and other architectural relics in Eastern Washington and Oregon. Rather than painting in remote locations, he used a camera to capture the structure and its detail. The paintings were done in his studio. In the book 40 Watercolorists and How They Work the artist talks about his work, "I think the distinctive aspect of my paintings is their simplicity, both in composition and subject. I treat each painting as a portrait, with the building being the subject. Only what is absolutely necessary in telling its story is included. In fact, I sometimes find it necessary to eliminate all sky and landscape, leaving the subject floating on a white background." Mike Burns was a member of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters and the Northwest Watercolor Society. His work has been exhibited extensively and he has won numerous awards regionally and nationally. Source: 40 Watercolorists and How They Work by Susan E. Meyer, Watson- Guptill Publications Mike Burns died in 1991. (biography obtained from http://www.askart.com/AskART/B/mike_burns/mike_burns.aspx --current as of 07/05/07), 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
247. Grapes
Grapes
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A black-and-white photogram of a collection of grapes arranged in a circle., 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
248. Shell
Shell
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A black-and-white photograph of a white seashell, directionally lit from the right-hand side, thus creating a heavy shadow on the left-hand side., 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
249. Drapery of Memory
Drapery of Memory
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Glossy strips of blonde wood, joined side-by-side in varying directions create a large abstract form., Jan Zack; Oregon State Capital; drapery of memory; E. Entrance Lobby, Jan Zack (pronounced "Yon Zock") was born in Slany, Czechoslovakia in 1914 on the eve of the First World War. During the 1930's, he trained in Prague to become a painter and decorator. He came to New York in 1938 to work on the Czech Pavilion for the World's Fair and never returned to his native country, kept out by the invasion of the Nazis in 1939 and the Communist takeover in 1948. He lived in Rio de Janeiro, and the countryside of Brazil for the next eleven years. He married in 1951, and he and his wife, Judith, moved to Victoria, British Columbia, which was her home. Seven years later, Zack settled in Eugene Oregon when the University of Oregon (UO) hired him as a sculpture professor., http://www.askart.com/askart/z/jan_zach/jan_zach.aspx, 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
250. Boy and Umbrella
Boy and Umbrella
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A mysterious, historic black-and-white photograph of a young boy clinging to the side of a precarious rock formation., http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/pho/p218inv.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
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