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Fine Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 167 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred Downing collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5344
Abstract

Collection includes an album, 1873-1879, belonging to Agnes Downing and filled with drawings by Alfred Downing, as well as clippings, photographs, and imprints of leaves and flowers that were once in the album. Also in the collection are a pen and ink sketch, "The filbert harvest at Bearfield Farm," 1866; and crayon over lithograph depicting Hawthorne Terrace, Portland Heights, Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1866-1900

Dr. E. K. Kane, Arctic explorer

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5336
Abstract

Pencil portrait of Elisha Kent Kane by Joseph Holt Templeton.

Dates: circa 1850-1908

Lithographs of Sir Francis Drake

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5138
Abstract

Two lithographs depicting Sir Francis Drake, one engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin, 1682, and one engraved by J. June, circa 1740-1770.

Dates: circa 1682-1770

Gaspard Duché de Vancy collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5137
Abstract

Collection includes two engravings from "Atlas du Voyage de la Pérouse," part of "Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde," a compilation of findings of the Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse expedition. Titles are in French. The engravings are Plate No. 53, "Tombeaux de la baie de Castries," and Plate No. 54, "Costumes des habitans de la baie de Castries."

Dates: 1797

Robin J. Dunitz research files on Black muralists in Portland, Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 896
Abstract

Research files of Robin J. Dunitz concerning Black muralists from Portland, Oregon, and their work, including photographs of murals; information about artists Henry Frison, Charlotte Lewis, Isaka Shamsud-Din, Arvie Smith, and Thelma Johnson Streat; information concerning the Albina Mural Project; and records of the traveling exhibit "Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride." Dunitz has studied and written about murals since the 1980s.

Dates: 1947-2017; Majority of material found within 1978-2017

Seth Eastman collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5305
Abstract

Collection includes 5 engravings depicting scenes of North American Native peoples and buffalo.

Dates: 1847

Edward Weber & Co. lithographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5377
Abstract

Collection includes lithographed views of the Columbia River and The Dalles.

Dates: 1849

Emigrants to the West

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5378
Abstract

Lithograph of a work by American painter William de la Montagne Cary (1840-1922), depicting a wagon train of pioneers camping and preparing a meal.

Dates: circa 1880-1890

Engravings for Banke's new system of geography

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5036
Abstract

Engravings made for Banke's New System of Geography, 1788, including: "Torreeoboo King of Owhyee, bringing presents for Capt'n Cook" and "The death of Capt'n Cook by the natives of Owhyee"; "The white bear found on the ice between the northern extremities of Asia and America" and "The Sea Otter found in Nootka Sound on the northwest coast of America"; "View of Karakakooa Bay in Owyhee, where Capt'n Cook was killed"; "View of Oonalashka and the inhabitants, etc."

Dates: 1788

Engravings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5370
Abstract

Engravings, primarily depicting Oregon scenes and Native people, that were excised from issues of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper dating from 1878-1887.

Dates: 1878-1887