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Fine Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 168 Collections and/or Records:

Portland Art Class records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1680
Abstract

Portland Art Class was an organization devoted to the appraisal of art and to the stimulation of art interests in Portland. Records include minutes, membership accounts, financial documents, programs, constitution, ephemera, correspondence, and membership rosters.

Dates: 1898-1971

Portland Hotel lithograph

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5390
Abstract

Lithograph depicting the Portland Hotel in Portland, Oregon, and horse-drawn vehicles traveling by in the foreground.

Dates: circa 1890-1893

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

Portland: the Rose City

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5389
Abstract

Color poster featuring a photograph by A. M. Prentiss of Portland, Oregon, with Mount Hood in the distance.

Dates: circa 1917-1925

La poste aux chiens des Kamtschadales

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5054
Abstract

Color lithograph depicting people of Kamchatka with a dogsled. Titles in French.

Dates: circa 1750-1850

Maurice A. Price scrapbooks on C. S. Price

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1018
Abstract

Three scrapbooks compiled by Maurice A. Price (1891-1966) of Portland, Oregon, containing clippings, photographs, correspondence, catalogs, and ephemera relating to Price's brother, artist C. S. Price (1874-1950). C. S. Price achieved fame later in his life, when he was living in Portland.

Dates: circa 1900-1952

Alexander Phimister Proctor papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5352
Abstract

Collection includes drafts of Alexander Phimister Proctor's autobiography; contracts; correspondence; sketches of animals, Native people, and various sculpting projects; magazine articles by Proctor; and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1892-1980

Edward B. Quigley collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2498
Abstract

Edward Burns Quigley (1894-1984) was a Western artist and sculptor. Collection includes sketchbooks with cartoon impressions of Quigley's experiences in France during World War I; posters and paintings; reproductions of pencil sketches of Oregon scenery; scrapbooks containing newspaper and magazine articles regarding Quigley and his work; and a first draft layout of Carl Gohs' book "Ed Quigley, Western Artist."

Dates: 1917-1984

Lithograph depicting the residence of A. H. Reynolds, Walla Walla, Washington Territory

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5392
Abstract

Lithograph depicting a house with a picket fence and boardwalk in front, and a pedestrian passing by. The lithograph was excised from the second volume of "History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington," published by the North Pacific History Company of Portland, Oregon, in 1889.

Dates: 1889

Oral history interview with Clyde Rice

 Collection
Identifier: SR1054
Abstract

Oral history interview with Clyde Rice conducted by Rick Harmon from January 22 to March 13, 1985. Rice was an author from Portland, Oregon, and he discusses his novel "A Heaven in the Eye," as well as his family background and early life, his marriages, and his father's flavor extract business.

Dates: 1985 January 22-March 13