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Fine Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 162 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Frederic Littman

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9530
Abstract

Oral history interview with Frederic Littman conducted by Charles Digregorio on February 6, 1974. Littman discusses his career as a sculptor in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1974 February 6

Lovejoy Columns restoration and relocation records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 931
Abstract Records, photographs, and ephemera related to efforts to conserve and relocate the Lovejoy Columns. The Lovejoy Columns were ten pillars for the Lovejoy Viaduct in Portland, Oregon, that were painted by Greek American Tom E. Stefopoulos from 1948 to 1952. When the Lovejoy viaduct was demolished in 1999, local artists, including members of the architectural collective Rigga, successfully campaigned for these pillars to be left intact. In 2005, two of the columns were relocated to Elizabeth...
Dates: 1964-2006; Majority of material found within 1998-2005

Oral history interview with Marjorie McDonald

 Collection
Identifier: SR6502
Abstract

Oral history interview with Marjorie McDonald conducted by Edna Kovacs on October 21, 1989. McDonald was the first Russian language high school teacher in the United States and became an artist after her retirement in 1963.

Dates: 1989 October 21

Oral history interview with Wayne McDonald

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9470
Abstract

Oral history interview with Wayne McDonald conducted by Ray Neufer around 1980. McDonald discusses painting a mural on a building at Beaver Acres Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon.

Dates: circa 1980

William F. McIlwraith collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5017
Abstract

Collection consists primarily of engravings from sketches by William F. McIlwraith of Oregon scenes, buildings, and ships, including: "Building the 'Star of Oregon,' " the old state Capitol building in Salem, the Forestry Building in Portland, the McLoughlin house in Oregon City, the Burnside Bridge in Portland, the Battleship Oregon, the steamboat T. J. Potter, and Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood (original pen and ink sketch).

Dates: circa 1932-1934

Memories

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5340
Abstract

Watercolor sketch by George A. Dowling, depicting Arthur Champlin Spencer sitting at a desk reading I.C.C. Proceedings while a vision of himself as a young attorney speaking before a jury appears in the smoke of his cigar.

Dates: circa 1938

Portraits of Joaquin and Minnie Myrtle Miller

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5331
Abstract

Two pen and ink portraits by M. C. Buchanan, depicting poet Joaquin Miller and author Minnie Myrtle Miller, who were spouses.

Dates: circa 1870-1883

Watercolor of Mount Hood

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5361
Abstract

Print of a watercolor painting by Phil Tyler, depicting the summit of Mount Hood, Oregon. Tyler (1914-1983) was an American painter best known for his watercolor paintings of Oregon landscapes.

Dates: circa 1940-1983

Mount Shasta

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5368
Abstract

Hand-colored lithograph depicting Mount Shasta in California.

Dates: 1873

Mt. Hood, Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5019
Abstract

Color lithograph depicting Mt. Hood, 1886, signed C.L.S. (possibly Clarence L. Smith).

Dates: 1886