Looking Back installation view

Installation View | January 2016

Looking Back installation view

Installation View | January 2016

Looking Back installation view

Installation View | January 2016

Looking Back installation view

Installation View | January 2016

Looking Back installation view

Installation View | January 2016

Looking Back installation view

Installation View | January 2016

Looking Back installation view

Installation View | January 2016

Looking Back installation view

Installation View | January 2016

Looking Back installation view

Installation View | January 2016

Louis Bunce - Study for Fleet Mural

Louis Bunce

Study for Fleet Mural

c. 1960

oil and mixed media on paper mounted on masonite

25 x 41 inches

Bunce - Untitled Still Life 1941

Louis Bunce

Untitled (Still Life)

1941

watercolor and gouache on paper

17.875 x 13,75 inches

Kenneth Callahan - Figures and Horses

Kenneth Callahan

Untitled (Figures and Horses)

oil and tempera on artist's board

12.5 x 34 inches

Martina Gangle Curl - Construction Site

Martina Gangle Curl

Untitled (Woman and Construction Site)

1948

oil on canvas

23 x 28 inches

Haley - Four green pears on white cloth

Sally Haley

Untitled (four green pears on white cloth)

1999

acrylic on canvas

22.25 x 36 inches

Sally Haley - vase on blue

Sally Haley

Untitled (vase on blue)

acrylic on canvas

33 x 22 inches

Sally Haley - Kiwi on Black

Sally Haley

Kiwi on Black

egg tempera on masonite

7.5 x 8 inches

Sally Haley - Six Onions

Sally Haley

Untitled (six onions)

egg tempera on masonite

11 x 16 inches

Sally Haley - Bowl of Cherries

Sally Haley

Untitled (Bowl of Cherries)

egg tempera on masonite

13.5 x 15.25 inches

Sally Haley - Pitcher, eggs in mold

Sally Haley

Untitled (pitcher, eggs in mold)

1977

acrylic on canvas

21 x 37 inches

Haley - Delicata and acorn

Sally Haley

Untitled (delicata and acorn squash on orange plate)

acrylic on linen

44.5 x 36 inches

Haley - basket with red apples

Sally Haley

Untitled (basket with red apples)

1996

acrylic on canvas

34 x 43 inches

Heidel - Untitled

Frederick Heidel

Untitled

Laminated glass, nickel plated steel

22.5 x 21 x 9 inches

Horiuchi - Autumn Wind

Paul Horiuchi

Autumn Wind

1962

collage on artist's board

26.5 x 16 inches

Carl Morris - Untitled abstract 1957

Carl Morris

Untitled

1957

ink and gouache on paper

27.75 x 16.25 inches

Carl Morris - Double Portrait

Carl Morris

Untitled (Double Portrait)

1950

acrylic on canvas

25 x 21.75 inches

Carl Morris - First Intersecting Light

Carl Morris

First Intersecting Light Series, CM-69-19

1969

oil on canvas

59.25 x 73 inches

 

Carl Morris - Pattern in a Poem

Carl Morris

Pattern in a Poem

1959

oil on canvas mounted on masonite panel

19.5 x 25.75 inches

Carl Morris - Yellow Light

Carl Morris

Yellow Light

1959

oil on canvas

46.25 x 72.5 inches

Carl Morris - Chapel Series 397

Carl Morris

Chapel Series 397

1981

acrylic on paper mounted on linen

31.5 x 24.25 inches

Carl Morris - Intersecting Light 365

Carl Morris

Intersecting Light 365

1982

acrylic on paper mounted on linen

17.25 x 24.5 inches

Hilda Morris - Myth of the Sea

Hilda Morris

Myth of the Sea (maquette)

cast bronze

15.25 x 11.75 x 5.5 inches

Hilda Morris - Muted Harp

Hilda Morris

Muted Harp (maquette)

cement, pigment over wire

26.5 x 24 x 11 inches

Runquist - Loading the Crane

A.C. Runquist

Loading the Crane

oil on masonite

18.5 x 14.5 inches

Runquist - Salem, Oregon

A.C. Runquist

Untitled (Salem, Oregon)

oil on masonite panel

19 x 22 inches

Runquist - Kaiser Shipyards

A.C. Runquist

Untitled (Kaiser Shipyard)

watercolor on paper

18 x 22 inches

Runquist - Coney Island

Arthur Runquist

Coney Island

oil on paper

22 x 26.75 inches

Runquist - Coaches

Arthur Runquist

Coaches (168G)

oil on canvas

22 x 26.75 inches

Russo - Tower

Michele Russo

Untitled (Tower)

1966

oil on canvas

61 x 45.75 inches

Russo - Elegiac

Michele Russo

Elegiac

c. 1960

oil on burlap

72 x 37.5 inches

Snyder - Baby Bird

Amanda Snyder

Baby Bird

1960

oil on masonite

19 x 15 inches

Snyder - Sunflowers

Amanda Snyder

Sunflowers in Vase

oil on masonite panel

22.5 x 18.75 inches

Snyder - City

Amanda Snyder

City

mixed media

12.5 x 8.5 inches

Snyder - Blue Vase

Amanda Snyder

Sunflowers in Blue Vase

oil on masonite panel

19.75 x 17.75 inches

Voorhies - Pond

Charles H. Voorhies

Pond

oil on masonite

22.75 x 21.25 inches

Press Release

This exhibition will feature a selection of work by regional artists who came to prominence in the mid-20th century, including Carl and Hilda Morris, Amanda Snyder, Sally Haley, Michele Russo, Arthur and Albert Runquist and others. Northwest Icons will consist of work by those who have had a profound influence on Portland and the Pacific Northwest as a whole. Their subject matter ranges from elegant still life, to lyrical abstraction, to representational observations of the world from the artists’ times. Works by these artists have been exhibited throughout the Pacific Northwest, nationally, and internationally including, the Seattle Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Major public and private collections include the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle and Tacoma Art Museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum.