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Fine Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 165 Collections and/or Records:

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

Bernie Haynes Robynson posters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5382
Abstract

Two versions of a poster by artist Bernie Haynes Robinson, one a color version dated 1965, and the other a larger, black-and-white version dated 1971 with different wording and some different illustrations. The posters feature drawings depicting Black Americans participating in leisure activities in an earlier era, including dancing, a fish fry, a parade, and a county fair.

Dates: 1965-1971

David Rock collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5141
Abstract

Drawings by David Rock, some in ink and some in pencil. They include portraits of historical figures, as well as depictions of Oregon places and landscapes, wildlife and livestock, pioneer scenes, and activities.

Dates: 1977-1978

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