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Fine Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 162 Collections and/or Records:

Sketches for "Children of the covered wagon: a story of the old Oregon Trail"

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5363
Abstract

Pen and ink sketches by Bob Kuhn for Mary Jane Carr's book "Children of the covered wagon: a story of the old Oregon Trail," depicting moccasins, a buffalo skull, and scenes from the book. Kuhn (1920-2007) was one of the leading painters of North American and African wildlife.

Dates: circa 1950-1957

Sketches of street scene and soldiers on train

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5366
Abstract

Two sketches, one on each side of a piece of paperboard, depicting a street scene and sleeping soldiers in a railroad car.

Dates: circa 1850-1950

Clarence L. Smith collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5144
Abstract

Cartoons and sketches by Clarence L. Smith, circa 1905-1931, including: an ink drawing of Astoria after the original by A. T. Agate (1841); a crayon drawing of Joseph Bradley Varnum Butler; and a pen and ink sketch of Fort Umpqua. Smith (1851-1934) was an illustrator and cartoonist for the Oregonian newspaper.

Dates: circa 1905-1931

Harold Cramer Smith collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5318
Abstract

Seven pen and ink illustrations by Harold Cramer Smith, drawn to accompany the text of Fannie Adams Copper's "My Life as a Homesteader" in Oregon Historical Quarterly in 1981, and depicting scenes from the text.

Dates: 1981

Joelle Smith portraits of Oregon pioneers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5058
Abstract

Ink portraits of famous Oregon pioneers, including George Abernathy, Jonathan Bourne, Robert Gray, Joseph Lane, John McLoughlin, Joe Meek, Peter Skene Ogden, Oswald West, John Whiteaker, Narcissa Whitman, W. S. U'Ren and Jason Lee, and Oregon pioneer archetypes, such as a trapper and farmer.

Dates: 1976

Margery Hoffman Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2660
Abstract Margery Hoffman Smith (born 1888) was a leading supporter of the arts, both in Portland, Oregon, and later in San Francisco. In the 1930s, Smith worked with the Works Progress Administration, supervising the handcraft work carried out for Timberline Lodge. Collection includes correspondence and diaries of Julia Hoffman, 1891-1934; correspondence of Margery Hoffman Smith, 1896-1981; papers related to Smith's professional and philanthropic activities; financial records; inventories and...
Dates: 1885-1986

Gustavus Sohon collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5346
Abstract

Gustavus Sohon (1825-1903), a German immigrant, was employed by the U.S. government between 1852 and 1863 as an illustrator and cartographer of explorations of the Rockies and Pacific Northwest. Collection consists of eight tinted lithographs of scenes of the Midwest, primarily Montana, done for the U.S. Pacific Railroad Exploration and Survey Report, 1854-1855.

Dates: 1854-1855

John Mix Stanley collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5302
Abstract

Collection includes 31 tinted lithographs depicting scenes of the Pacific Northwest done for the U. S. Pacific Railroad Exploration and Survey Report. Scenes include the Columbia River, waterfalls, Nimiipuu (Nez Percé) people, the Palouse River, Hudson's Bay Company, the Cascades, Mount Rainier, lakes, and missions.

Dates: 1855

Lithograph of the steamboat Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5056
Abstract

Hand-colored lithograph depicting the sidewheel steamboat Oregon, and including various measurements, including the length of the steamer's deck, the depth of its hold, and the diameter of its wheels.

Dates: circa 1845-1857

Mack Sutter woodcarving design papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1028
Abstract

Papers relating to the woodcarving designs of Harvey "Mack" Sutter (1906-1997), primarily design drawings and photographs of carvings, but also clippings and copies of instructional books about floral relief carving that he published. Sutter lived in Portland, Oregon, from 1958 until his death, and in his retirement carved floral reliefs and taught woodcarving.

Dates: circa 1955-2022; Majority of material found within 1971-1993; 2022