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watercolors (paintings)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Camp on Snake River, Wyo.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5278
Abstract

Watercolor sketch depicting soldiers and Native people firing on one another at the Wyoming camp of the F & K Companies of the 9th Infantry during the Indian Wars.

Dates: circa 1850-1930

Capt. Geo. E. Pickett's home

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5287
Abstract

Watercolor sketch by Grace Ketchan, depicting the house of Captain George E. Pickett at 910 Bancroft St. in Bellingham, Washington.

Dates: 1856

First Methodist Church in Portland

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5167
Abstract

Pencil and watercolor sketch of the first Methodist Church in Portland, Oregon. Note in collection states that the church was erected by James H. Wilbur in 1849-1850 and suggests that the artist may have been A. R. Stringer.

Dates: circa 1850-1950

H.M.S. Tenedos going into San Francisco

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5280
Abstract

Watercolor sketch of the bark Tenedos in San Francisco Bay.

Dates: circa 1800-1899

Isaac Hodgson, Jr. architectural illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 3055
Abstract

Lithographic and watercolor illustrations depicting buildings in Portland, Oregon, designed by architect Isaac Hodgson, Jr., who worked in Portland during the early 1890s. The watercolors and one of the lithographs depict the Chamber of Commerce building; the other lithograph depicts the entrance to a proposed United Bank building.

Dates: 1891

Memories

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5340
Abstract

Watercolor sketch by George A. Dowling, depicting Arthur Champlin Spencer sitting at a desk reading I.C.C. Proceedings while a vision of himself as a young attorney speaking before a jury appears in the smoke of his cigar.

Dates: circa 1938

Mt. Tacoma from American Lake

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5139
Abstract

Watercolor sketch of Mt. Tacoma (Mt. Rainier) as seen from American Lake in Washington, by J. H. Houghton.

Dates: circa 1900-1939

Portland scenes

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5339
Abstract

Watercolor reproductions of Newman Myrah's "Portland Scenes" series. Scenes include the Pioneer Courthouse, the Skidmore Fountain, the U.S.S. Oregon, the Portland Hotel, streetcars, and the Morrison Bridge.

Dates: circa 1974

Cleveland Rockwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2163
Abstract Small collection consisting primarily of pencil and watercolor drawings and sketches made by Cleveland Rockwell (1837-1907), a cartographer and Oregon artist. The bulk of the sketches depict landscape scenes in Oregon, Washington, California, and Alaska, as well as British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The collection also includes a significant number of watercolor drawings of Pacific Northwest and California wildflowers, some of them made by Cornelia F. Rockwell (née Russell, 1856-1922),...
Dates: 1862-circa 1965; Majority of material found within 1862-1905

Sketch of a barn on G. St., Tacoma, Washington

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5055
Abstract

Watercolor sketch of a house on G Street in Tacoma, Washington, by J. J. Nelson.

Dates: circa 1900-1976