This catalog is published in conjunction with a 2002 exhibition arranged by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University (Salem, Oregon) and scheduled to travel nationally for two years. A brief essay by author Barry Lopez precedes the in-depth biographical and interpretive essay by curator Rebecca J. Dobkins (anthropology, Willamette U.). Bartow (b.1946), who represents the fourth generation of his family to live on the Oregon coast, incorporates his grandfather's Yurok Indian heritage into dynamic paintings and carved wood/mixed media sculptures. Sixty-one works of art are pictured. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rick Bartow: My Eye

Arts & Photography

Dobkins, Rebecca J.

Hallie Ford Museum of Art

Bartow, Rick

Individual Artists

Intersections: The life and art of Jan Zach

Jan Zach (Czech-American, 1914-1984) was a highly regarded Oregon sculptor and professor of art at the University of Oregon. This work, commemorating a retrospective exhibition of Zach's work, traces his development as an artist and includes many b&amp;w photos of pieces. The book is distributed by the University of Washington Press. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Intersections: The Life and Art of Jan Zach

Roger Hull

Carl Hall, born in 1921 in Detroit, was an accomplished Magic Realist painter on the brink of a major career in American art when World War II intervened. As a young Army recruit, he was assigned to Camp Adair near Corvallis, Oregon, in 1942. For Hall, Oregon was "Eden Again," and after military service in the Pacific he and his wife settled permanently in the state, which became the focus of Hall's consummate artistry for the next 50 years. Hall became one of western Oregon's most expressive visual interpreters, focusing for most of his lifetime on the terrain of the Willamette Valley, the mountains that enclose it, and the Pacific coast beyond. In exploring Hall's place in Pacific Northwest and American art, this book is a study of regional art and art history, of the interplay between regional and national art production in the periods before and after World War II, and of Hall's metaphorical use of natural forms as the basis for personal expression.

Eden Again: The Art of Carl Hall

Hull, Roger

Hall, Carl

Willamette University

Contains a fresh, lively discussion of Egyptian art in American collections, written by the curator of Egyptian, classical, and ancient Middle E astern art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. Includes an essay by John Olbrantz (Director, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette U., Salem, Oregon) on collectors, curators, and the rise of Egyptian collections in the US. Abundantly illustrated in color and b&w. Distributed by U. of Washington Press. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections

Romano, James F.

History & Criticism

Charles E. Heaney (1897-1981) was a highly regarded Oregon painter and printmaker who created a powerful body of work over a sixty-year period that is remarkable for its consistency, enormity, and complex emotional expressiveness. This volume examines his paintings, including his urban "demolition" series based on the razing of old buildings in Portland as the city modernized, his renderings of the remote landscape of eastern Oregon and Nevada, and his "portraits" of individuals, usually women, placed icon-like in the center of the picture. As a printmaker, he was recognized thorughout his lifetime for his woodcut prints of Portland neighborhoods, small Oregon towns, and the high desert of Eastern Oregon, and his aquatints based on plants, fish, and fossil forms.

Charles E. Heaney: Memory, Imagination, And Place

Marvelous Monsters

Heidi Preuss Grew

David Roberts (1796–1864) was a self-taught Scottish painter who rose from the depths of poverty and obscurity in Edinburgh to become one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, a member of the Royal Academy, and a painter whose works can be found in some of the most distinguished public and private collections in Europe and America. A highly ambitious and motivated artist who loved to travel, he is best known for the travelogue of Egypt and the Holy Land that he produced with lithographer Louis Haghe from sketches he made during a nine-month trip to the region in 1838–39. These exquisitely rendered prints of the architecture and topography of the Middle East, as well as the prints of Moorish Spain that he made on a trip there a decade earlier, firmly established him as an important Orientalist painter and the most accomplished architectural and topographical painter of his day. David Roberts: Artist and Traveler features a lively text by art historian and Hallie Ford Museum of Art director John Olbrantz, informative endnotes to the author’s essay, a brief chronology of Roberts’s career, a selected bibliography for further reading, and 96 color illustrations.

David Roberts: Artist and Traveler

Olbrantz, John

Rita Robillard (American, born 1944) is a highly regarded Portland, Oregon, mixed media artist who explores themes of history, nature, ecology, and place in her work. A prolific printmaker and painter who is constantly pushing the boundaries of the printmaking medium, Robillard was born, raised, and educated in New York City, studied at Cooper Union in the early 1960s, lived and worked in Brazil in the early 1970s, earned her BA degree and MFA degree at the University of California, Berkeley in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and taught at Washington State University in Pullman and Portland State University. Wherever she has lived, Robillard's work has served as an exploration and meditation on time and place. &nbsp; In this lavishly illustrated book, four contemporary art writers come together to explore the life and times of Rita Robillard. Art writer Bean Gilsdorf provides a broad overview of Robillard's life and career, while Frances DeVuono, a friend of Robillard's for many years, offers an in-depth interview with the artist. Patricia Grieve Watkinson, former director of the Museum of Art at Washington State University in Pullman, discusses Robillard's Pullman years, while Linda Tesner, former director of the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, writes about her Portland years. In addition to the essays, the book features an extensive biography of the artist and more than 60 color illustrations.&nbsp;

Rita Robillard: Time and Place

Tesner, Linda

Watkinson, Patricia Grieve

Gilsdorf, Bean

Frances, DeVuono

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

C.S. Price: A Portrait&nbsp;chronicles the life and work of an early Portland modernist painter (1874-1950), who emerged&nbsp;in the 1930s and '40s as a national figure and one of Oregon's most important and influential artists. Beginning his career as a Western illustrator, Price moved from Wyoming to Monterey, California, in the 1910s and '20s, where he encountered Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings. In 1929 he moved to Portland, and during the next two decades, his work reflected modern European art, including German Expressionist painting, as well as his own brand of American modernism. In this lavishly illustrated and definitive volume, Roger Saydack documents Price's career over a fifty-year period, placing his work within the broader context of twentieth century American and Pacific Northwest art. C. S. Price: A Portrait,&nbsp;a major fifty-year retrospective exhibition, will be on view at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem from June 16 to August 30, 2025. "Saydack pushes further than visual description and stylistic assessment in his analysis of Price and his work. He fully identifies with Price as a person and natural philosopher who found in his iconic subjects--animals, laborers, structures, mountains, and the sea--deeper, transcendental meanings, aspects of what Price himself called 'the One Big Thing,' the essential underlying nature of reality." --from the Foreword by Roger Hull, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Willamette University

C.S. Price: A Portrait

Saydack, Roger

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