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1. Racing the Sun

Description: This print depicts a wintertime landscape scene coupled with evidence of a human presence, rendered in four blocks of separate geometric shapes. The color palette includes blue, purple, yellow, and red., Racing the Sun; Rathbun; sertgraph; 15 x 9 inches, http://www.waterstonegallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?artistid=20, 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. Passages #1

Description: A light orange awning form separates the blue, green, and black textured background from a yellow landscape overlook that is defined by the awning form. the foreground presents shrubs and vegetation in turqouise, ochre, and black., Passage #1; Jon Jay Cruson; lithograph from stone; 12 x 23 inches, Jon Jay Cruson is a N.W. artist who grinds, draws, etches, and pulls his own prints from the lithographic stone - on a hand cranked late 1800's press. He is one of the few lithographic printmakers that has his own studio - and does the complete printing process by himself. He is also noted on the West Coast for his paintings. (Unknown, 1987), http://www.wlotus.com/JonJayCruson/default.htm, 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. Red Rocks

Description: This landscape scene depicts an outcropping of rocks in the middle of still, reflective water. A single tree grows up through the center of the piece, and the water is surrounded by other bushes. Angular rock formations and dotted hills provide a backdrop., Red Rocks; Gordon Mortensen; reduction woodcut; 26.25 x 39 inches; $475, http://www.gordonmortensen.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

4. Spring Chinook

Description: A black and white print featuring a vortex of fish and lobsters. Insets in the print present human presence., Spring Chinook #1; Dennis Cunningham; lino-cut print; 32 x 32 inches; 1989, 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

5. Pavilion

Description: This piece resembles some sort of official seal. The picture plane is defined by a circle with a textured border that appears to be some sort of marble pattern. The interior of the circle is divided into three sections. The outer two sections repeat the marble-like pattern in yellow on the left and in orange on the right. The middle section appears to be the silhouette of a building that looks over a natural landscape., Pavilion; Jon Jay Cruson; lithograph; 18 inches in diameter, Jon Jay Cruson is a N.W. artist who grinds, draws, etches, and pulls his own prints from the lithographic stone - on a hand cranked late 1800's press. He is one of the few lithographic printmakers that has his own studio - and does the complete printing process by himself. He is also noted on the West Coast for his paintings. (Unknown, 1987), http://www.wlotus.com/JonJayCruson/default.htm, 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

6. Pearl at 13th

Description: This brightly colored print depicts a street scene where the street recedes into the background from the foreground, bearing a bike lane, various graffitti markings, and three manhole covers. The tree-lined boulevard gives way to store fronts and housing. A shilhouette of a mountain under a pinkish sky swallows up the street in the background., Pearl at 13th; M.L. McCorkle; reduction linoleum cut; (in collaboration with Bill Bradish); 1988; 16 x 21 inches, http://www.zerodegreesart.com/zeroArtists.php?artist=mmccorkle, 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

7. Gate of the Twilight Dreamers: Secret Journey

Description: This nighttime landscape piece depicts a view from what appears to be the silhouette of a screened-in porch entrance. It opens up onto a tree- and ridge-lined lake. In a separate section above the landscape scene is cloud and moon scene, offset with stylized lines., Gate: Secret Journey; Valerie Willson; intaglio/relief; 22 x 30 inches, http://valeriewillson.com/index.htm, 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

8. Fairmount and Columbia

Description: This brightly colored print depicts a street scene where the street weaves in and out of the picture plane. The curves give way to a supporting cast of highly patterned retaining walls and groves of trees. A bright yellow family of ducks crosses the road from the bottom left hand corner of the piece. This piece is one of the Eugene series prints done in collaboration with Bill Bradish. Both McCorkle and Braddish intended to leave Eugene and decided to celebrate and commemorate their time in Eugene by doing an homage of those places in town which they had found representative of the essence of Eugene. Oregon in general seems to be about abrupt geological shifts. This particular intersection, with one street going dramatically up and the other dramatically down, was a visual symbol of that beauty and surprise one associates with Oregon landscape. The duck crossing was borrowed from Patterson near 13th Avenue and imposed upon the more mountainous scene, which was then modified with blue grass to give the ducks a place to go. Basically the artists' intention was to play with space--stretching and mocking the conventions of atmospheric and linear perspective--and to create a playful tribute to an area we both cared about. (author unknown, 1989), Fairmont and Columbia; M.L. McCorkle; reduction linoleum cut; (in collaboration with Bill Bradish); 1988; 16 x 21 inches, http://www.zerodegreesart.com/zeroArtists.php?artist=mmccorkle, 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

9. The Bouquet

Description: What appears to be a floral still life comes to life with the activity of a number of small figures and a ship disguised among the flowers. Red, orange, yellow, and green add color to the otherwise black-and-white composition., The Boquet; S. Funkhouser; 24 x 18 inches, http://www.luciadouglas.com/artists/artists_list/funkhouser.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

10. Watermark

Description: This print presents a view of the beach in three layers of color. The beach occupies about three quarters of the picture plane, and it is rendered in a bright ochre color. The water and two rocks protruding from it comprise the second section, presented in black. The sky is the remaining seciton, presented in a gradated pink. Some plant-like forms and the arm of a crab or crawfish creep onto the beach from the left side, and some sort of skeletal remain occupies park of the pink sky., Watermark; Rathbun; screenprint; 9 x 15 inches, http://www.waterstonegallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?artistid=20, 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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