Download or read book Paintings of Portland written by Carl Little and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Portland and its surroundings, including the islands of Casco Bay, have inspired a wide range of art over the past 200 years. The “city by the sea,” as Longfellow famously called it, has been a visual talisman for a host of artists, from early masters like Harrison Bird Brown and John Bradley Hudson to a remarkable roster of contemporary painters. Subjects include many of the city’s signature buildings, including the Custom House and Portland Head Light, as well as street scenes, the waterfront, harbor, back bay, and surrounding landscapes—even the Million Dollar Bridge. Paintings of Portland will feature a wide range of motifs, in all seasons and represented by an array of styles. About a quarter of the book will be devoted to historical pieces, the rest to paintings by contemporary artists.

Download or read book Oaks Park Pentimento written by Inara Verzemnieks and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two days in 1982, Jim Lommasson photographed the strange and beautiful paintings that decorated the center column of the historic carousel at Oaks Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon. The original carousel images - painted by German and Italian immigrants around 1912 - were an exotic assortment of Edwardian pastoral scenes featuring western explorers, Native Americans, an Arab riding a camel, and idealized women. When these paintings began to show signs of wear in the 1940s, two itinerant artists brothers from Vashon Island, Washington - were hired to paint over the eighteen panels with depictions of such local landmarks as the Columbia River Highway, Mount Hood, Multnornah Falls, and scenes from the Oregon coast. Eventually, the surfaces of these new paintings also began to flake and fade, revealing parts of the original images in unusual and unexpected ways. The resulting double exposures or "pentimentos" included a ghostly sailboat gliding through a forest, an Indian chief looming over the Columbia River Gorge, and a parasoled woman with the road to Crown Point emerging from her loins. Each new image created a completely accidental, even surreal, story about the juxtaposition of two generations of paintings. Just three years after Jim Lommasson captured these images on film, the original paintings were restored and the mysterious double exposures disappeared under yet another layer of paint. Oaks Park Pentimento preserves these haunting photographs and also includes an appreciation by art historian Prudence Roberts and a look at Oaks Park, past and present, by journalist Inara Verzemnieks.

Download or read book Oil and Marble written by Stephanie Storey and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.

Download or read book Paintings Exhibited by Portland Art Association written by Portland Art Association (Portland, Or.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Private Lives written by Mary Weaver Chapin and published by Cleveland Museum of Art. This book was released on 2021 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four "prophets" of art whose luminous work unfolds the mysteries of domestic life

Download or read book Oregon Painters written by Ginny Allen and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an expanded, pictorial review of the history of painting in Oregon from 1859-1959. The first edition was published as an encyclopedia and index of Oregon painters with historical data about the evolution of painting styles, educational institutions, and exhibition venues in the Northwest; this book expands the focus on the history of painting in Oregon, adding essays on Impressionism and Modernism while using more and better visual examples to illustrate the strength of the state's early painters. In addition, the original indexed content has been edited and condensed. Oregon Painters fills an important niche, as little has been written about the early history of Northwest art and this volume serves as a valuable resource for discovering artists who remain largely unknown but whose works continue to gain in reputation and value.

Download or read book Exhibition of Paintings from New York written by Portland Art Association (Portland, Or.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clifford Ross written by Jessica May and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and sophisticated investigation into the nature of vision. American artist Clifford Ross's photographic and video practices over the past thirty years reveal one of the most incisive and technically sophisticated investigations into the nature of vision in the medium's history. Clifford Ross: Sightlines showcases the range and depth of Ross's art by presenting the inexhaustible variety of visual experience he has created with just two primary subjects: mountain and sea. In our era of unprecedented environmental peril, his inventive exploration of these iconic subjects conveys a powerful creative engagement with landscapes that are both majestic and fragile.

Download or read book Art Made from Books written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists around the world have lately been turning to their bookshelves for more than just a good read, opting to cut, paint, carve, stitch or otherwise transform the printed page into whole new beautiful, thought-provoking works of art. Art Made from Books is the definitive guide to this compelling art form, showcasing groundbreaking work by today's most showstopping practitioners. From Su Blackwell's whimsical pop-up landscapes to the stacked-book sculptures of Kylie Stillman, each portfolio celebrates the incredible creative diversity of the medium. A preface by pioneering artist Brian Dettmer and an introduction by design critic Alyson Kuhn round out the collection.

Download or read book Artists of Oregon Paintings and Sculptures 1966 written by Portland Art Museum (Or.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Masterpieces of Painting from the Portland Museum of Art written by Portland Museum of Art Staff and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 full-color postcard reproductions reflect the Portland Museum's rich and varied holdings of paintings by American and European artists, among them Homer, Hopper, Wyeth, Sargent, da Vinci, Monet, Matisse and Magritte.

Download or read book Paintings from the Collection of Walter P Chrysler Jr written by Portland Art Museum (Or.) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paintings Drawings Sculptures from the Collection of Caroline Erwin Swann written by Portland Art Museum (Or.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism written by Anthony White and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self-portraits of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are renowned for their dream-like quality and emotional intensity. A passionate woman endowed with an indomitable spirit, Kahlo overcame injury and personal hardship to become one of the world's most important female artists. Celebrated by the surrealists in her own lifetime, she has attained cult-like status both for her extraordinary art and her tempestuous love-life with her husband, Diego Rivera, Mexico's most prominent modern painter. An outstanding selection of paintings by Kahlo and Rivera form the core of this catalogue, which accompanies the National Gallery of Australia's exhibition. Jacques Gelman, the Russian emigre film producer, and his wife, Natasha, built up their collection over many years of acquaintance and collaboration with Mexico's greatest creative artists. It is now widely regarded as the most significant private holding of twentieth century American art.

Download or read book Homer Remington written by Margaret C. Adler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exhibition catalogue on the work of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington with a technical study of the objects"--

Download or read book Portland s Public Art written by Norma Catherine Gleason and published by Oregon Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sculpture, murals, landscape art, fountains, and glasswork exhibits from every section of the city, through 1983.

Download or read book To Survive on this Shore written by Jess T. Dugan and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuanced view into the complexities of aging as a transgender person