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Fine Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 162 Collections and/or Records:

Engravings from Voyage en Sibérie

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5024
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1768

Bernard M. Eubanks collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss5000
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1966-1979

Ray Eyerly engraving and lithograph

 Collection
Identifier: Mss5001
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1956

First house in Portland, Or.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5166
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1850-1950

First Methodist Church in Portland

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5167
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1850-1950

Fort Vancouver

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5385
Abstract

Engraving of an aerial view of Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, by Richard Covington.

Dates: 1855

Fort Vancouver etching

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5283
Abstract

Oval silverpoint etching of Fort Vancouver by John W. Hopkins.

Dates: circa 1860

Martha Strong Gebhart sketchbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2859
Abstract

Sketchbook with watercolors and pencil sketches of Oregon, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood, Michigan, and other places Martha Strong Gebhart traveled.

Dates: 1882-1884

Oral history interview with Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9526
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1980 September 25

Robert Swain Gifford illustrations from Picturesque America

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5310
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1872