Fine Arts
Found in 165 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Leo F. Simon
Oral history interview with Leo F. Simon conducted by Linda S. Dodds on February 7, 1980. Simon discusses his career as a commercial photographer in Portland, Oregon.
Sketch of a barn on G. St., Tacoma, Washington
Watercolor sketch of a house on G Street in Tacoma, Washington, by J. J. Nelson.
Sketch of Southwest Broadway Ave. and Southwest Jefferson Street, Portland, Or.
Print of a pen and ink drawing by John Waddingham that depicts SW Broadway Avenue and SW Jefferson Street in Portland, Oregon, and shows the Broadway Inn and the Oregon Historical Society.
Sketches for "Children of the covered wagon: a story of the old Oregon Trail"
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.
Sketches of street scene and soldiers on train
Two sketches, one on each side of a piece of paperboard, depicting a street scene and sleeping soldiers in a railroad car.
Clarence L. Smith collection
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.
Harold Cramer Smith collection
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.
Joelle Smith portraits of Oregon pioneers
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.
Margery Hoffman Smith papers
Gustavus Sohon collection
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.