Fine Arts
Found in 170 Collections and/or Records:
Charge of Major Grier's First United States Dragoons
Print depicting a battle at Medical Lake, Washington, on September 1, 1858, where Major William N. Grier led a charge of dragoons during the Indian Wars.
Louis Choris collection
Collection includes hand-colored lithographs of glaciers in Kotzebue, Alaska, and the Chukchi people in Kamchatka, Russia.
Oral history interview with Tito Chowdhury
Oral history interview with Tito Chowdhury, conducted by Sankar Raman and Lisa Cohn on March 12 and March 23, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Chowdhury discusses his early life in Bangladesh, including his family's experiences during the 1947 partition of India and the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, and talks about his involvement with FashioNXT, a fashion event in Portland, Oregon.
Phimister P. Church photographic collection on A. Phimister Proctor
Nine black and white photographs of A. Phimister Proctor with several of his sculptures now located around Oregon, including the "Rough Rider" statue of Theodore Roosevelt in Portland, the "Pioneer" statue in Eugene, "The Circuit Rider" statue in Salem, and others.
Portrait of Henry Winslow Corbett
Lithographed portrait of Henry Winslow Corbett.
Engraving from George Henry Mason's "The Costume of China"
Hand-colored engraving from "The Costume of China" by George Henry Mason. In Mason's book, the engraving is Plate I, and is titled "A Mandarin of Distinction in his Habit of Ceremony."
Crater Lake, Jackson County
Black and white lithograph depicting Crater Lake in Oregon. The lithograph was excised from the 1884 book "History of Southern Oregon: Comprising Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Curry and Coos Counties," published by A. G. Walling.
Portrait of Col. George B. Currey
Pen and ink portrait of Colonel George B. Currey.
Homer Davenport collection
Cartoons and sketches of contemporary persons and events by Homer Davenport (1867-1912), a political cartoonist from Oregon known for his satirical drawings and support of Progressive-era politics.
George Davidson commonplace book and related materials
Commonplace book of paintings and writings by George Davidson (1768-1801) of Massachusetts, along with other materials relating to Davidson and his works, including a handwritten genealogical document by his son, who was also named George Davidson (born 1798, died 1837 or 1845). A number of the paintings depict sailing ships. Davidson was a crew member on the Columbia Rediviva when it traveled to the Pacific Northwest in the 1790s; he died while captain of the ship Rover.