Ejiri lies across Shimizu Bay from Okitsu, home of the Japanese inn made famous by Oliver Statler's novel. The legendary pines of Miho now witness freighters entering and leaving the bay. Ejiri is the 19th station of the Tokaido., Tokaido Series: Ejiri-Miho; [no.] 6, During the summer of 1984, Walt Padgett bicycled and camped Japan's Tokaido, documenting the famous "53 Stations of the Tokaido" prints of Ando Hiroshige and Junichiro Sekino. Since that time Mr. Padgett has been producing his own series of woodblock prints from his travels on this historic highway. The Tokaido, literally the "eastern sea route" stretching 320 miles, has provided the main link between the cities of Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo) for a thousand years. Although many Japanese artists have produced work drawn from the Tokaido, its landscape, its people, its history, still provide a rich source of subject matter, especially to the foreign eye of an American. Mr. Padgett utilizes authentic Japanese handmade chisels, brushes, and paper, in the manufacture of his prints; the blocks are hand-carved, the prints hand-burnished by the artist, in the sosaku hanga tradition. (Oregon Arts Commission), http://www.padgettart.com/news.php, 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/
Two distict, rectangular sections comprise this piece that presents white marks on a black background, which begin to suggest shapes and action, but render nothing definitively., The Beekeeper, 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/
Medium brown wooden stair railing with three parallel bars on each side of the stairwell. In between two of the bars, are panels of lighter wood with branches and leaves etched or carved, between each vertical bar. The type of wood used for carving is undetermined. The posts and handrails may be made out of clear fir., Gary Rogowski; Forestry #10, Gary Rogowski, master woodworker, is the founder and director of the NorthWest Woodworking Studio, in Portland Oregon., http://www.northwestwoodworking.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
According to the artist, Gold Twist represents the sun's reflection off of bright surfaces. Image shows handmade paper and goldleafing., Kati Casida; 1979; Gold Twist; state printer; 35x35x3 inches; handmade paper with woodcut and gold leaf; edition/5, ddekalb@steelgallery.com, http://members.aol.com/kcasida/, 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 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
Medium brown wooden stair railing with three parallel bars on each side of the stairwell. In between two of the bars, are panels of lighter wood with branches and leaves etched or carved, between each vertical bar. The type of wood used for carving is undetermined. The posts and handrails may be made out of clear fir., Gary Rogowski; Forestry #10, Gary Rogowski, master woodworker, is the founder and director of the NorthWest Woodworking Studio, in Portland Oregon., http://www.northwestwoodworking.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
Medium brown wooden stair railing with three parallel bars on each side of the stairwell. In between two of the bars, are panels of lighter wood with branches and leaves etched or carved, between each vertical bar. The type of wood used for carving is undetermined. The posts and handrails may be made out of clear fir., Gary Rogowski; Forestry #10, Gary Rogowski, master woodworker, is the founder and director of the NorthWest Woodworking Studio, in Portland Oregon., http://www.northwestwoodworking.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
Medium brown wooden stair railing with three parallel bars on each side of the stairwell. In between two of the bars, are panels of lighter wood with branches and leaves etched or carved, between each vertical bar. The type of wood used for carving is undetermined. The posts and handrails may be made out of clear fir., Gary Rogowski; Forestry #10, Gary Rogowski, master woodworker, is the founder and director of the NorthWest Woodworking Studio, in Portland Oregon., http://www.northwestwoodworking.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
A vibrant colored print depicting an abstract landscape. There is a red, purple and orange dotted sky with long fluffy clouds above a dark green forest. In front of the forest are six red spiky, flame-shaped plants amongst numerous small blue bushes on an orange and yellow ground., Near Bend; woodcut, 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
Two men in hats flank the frame of this woodcut piece that presents a scene from a rodeo. A bullrider occupies the central focal point while other performers and revelers pepper the background. The audience is kept at bay by a band of black, and a rooster and a dog prowl the foreground. This is one of two views of this artwork. Variations between duplicate images relate directly to original source materials., Woodcut; 1978, Manuel Izquierdo was born in Madrid, Spain, and fled to the United States settling in Portland, Oregon in 1943. While he was in high school Manuel was encouraged to pursue wood-cuts by Lloyd Reynolds, the well-known calligrapher. In 1951 Manuel graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and soon after became a professor there. Manuel Izquierdo received the Oregon Governor's Award in 1991 and has exhibited work both in the Northwest and nationally, including a ten-year retrospective at the Portland Art Museum in 1967. Having completed many commissions his sculpture can be seen in a variety of Portland public spaces such as Pettygrove Square. His work is in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum in Pennsylvania, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum., http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/izquierdo.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/