Fine Arts
Found in 162 Collections and/or Records:
Engravings from Voyage en Sibérie
Collection consists of seven engravings depicting scenes of people, activities, and places in the Kamchatka area of Russia, on the Pacific Coast. The engravings are from the second volume of Jean-Baptiste Chappe d’Auteroche's "Voyage en Sibérie," published in Paris, France, in 1768, which included a translation of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov's "Opisanie zemli Kamchatki" (Description of the land of Kamchatka), 1755. Titles and captions are in French.
Bernard M. Eubanks collection
Bernard Eubanks (born 1895) was a pencil artist and humorist. Collection includes a series of photogravures of old Oregon buildings, most now demolished, with attached information sheets.
Ray Eyerly engraving and lithograph
Collection consists of a lithograph of a rail fence and an engraving depicting a Navajo Indian. Ray Eyerly (1894-1980) moved to Salem, Oregon in 1919 and was co-founder of the Realistic Artists Guild. He became a full-time artist after moving to Sisters, Oregon, in 1962, and he was honored in a resolution by the Oregon State Legislature in 1971.
First house in Portland, Or.
Pen and ink sketch by William L. Higgins of the first house built in Portland, Oregon. Note in collection states that the house belonged to William Johnson and was built in 1842.
First Methodist Church in Portland
Pencil and watercolor sketch of the first Methodist Church in Portland, Oregon. Note in collection states that the church was erected by James H. Wilbur in 1849-1850 and suggests that the artist may have been A. R. Stringer.
Fort Vancouver
Engraving of an aerial view of Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, by Richard Covington.
Fort Vancouver etching
Oval silverpoint etching of Fort Vancouver by John W. Hopkins.
Martha Strong Gebhart sketchbook
Sketchbook with watercolors and pencil sketches of Oregon, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood, Michigan, and other places Martha Strong Gebhart traveled.
Oral history interview with Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri
Oral history interview with Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri conducted by Linda S. Dodds on September 25, 1980. Ghiglieri discusses his career as a painter and sculptor in Portland, Oregon.
Robert Swain Gifford illustrations from Picturesque America
Ten engravings, some hand colored, by Robert Swain Gifford, excised from Volume 1 of "Picturesque America: Or, the Land We Live In" edited by William Cullen Bryant, 1872. The engravings depict Native people and landscape features along the Columbia River, primarily in the Columbia River Gorge.