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Diecut exhibition invite tri-folded as issued and mailed (no postmarked date). Published in connection with Allen Carter exhibition at the Renshaw Gallery at Linfield College, April 5-25.
Condition: Fine, 1 cm tear on middle left and a very slight crease in center that runs half way down the document.
Item #243
The opening of Arlene Schnitzer's Fountain Gallery in 1961 was a pivotal moment in Portland's art history, and its influence still resonates today. This flyer, designed by Dale Ott, advertises a group show for the gallery's one-year anniversary with 32 noteworthy Northwest artists including Mark Tobey, Carl and Hilda Morris, Louis Bunce, Robert Colescott and Michele Russo. Postmarked and with handwritten mailing label on verso, remnants of a gold circular mailing tab seal.
Condition: Near Fine, folded twice as issued.
Item #731
Two-piece set of invitations to the grand opening of Arlene Schnitzer's Fountain Gallery of Art in the Skidmore Fountain section of Portland. The first piece is an invitation to a champagne party on November 28, 1961, the eve of the Gallery's opening. The second is an invitation to the preview the following day. The Gallery officially opened on December 4 with a show including Kenneth Callahan, Carl and Hilda Morris, Michele Russo, Sally Haley, Robert Colescott and others.
Condition: Near Fine.
Item #732
Exhibition document for James Lee Hansen's May-June 1966 exhibition at the legendary Fountain Gallery located in Portland, Oregon. The light brown cover which includes biographical information folds out and includes a large photograph of the artist working along with a list of works. Staple bound into the larger cover flyer is a small book of images of bronze sculptures included in the exhibition. The catalogue was designed by Dale Ott. This catalogue was mailed and includes a note in pencil near mailing address with the message "come say goodbye."
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Item #295
An exhibition poster tri-folded as issued appropriately printed on fine heavy stock paper. The Oregon School of Arts and Crafts (now named Oregon College of Arts and Crafts) PAPER exhibition included: Elizabeth Anderson, Tim Ely, Kindra Myron, Suzanne Ferris, John Laursen, and Margaret Ahrens Sahlstrand.
Condition: Fine, offset color lithograph folded as issued.
Item #242
The Portland Center for the Visual Arts was an exhibition space founded by artists in 1971. The gallery exhibited artists such as Eleanor Antin, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, Robert Irwin, and Bruce Nauman, along with many Northwest artists. This event poster features upcoming performances and exhibitions by Buster Simpson, Aleck Karis, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Fay Jones and Deborah Slater.
Condition: Fine two-color brochure printed on newsprint, unmailed, folded as issued.
Item #245
An invitational exhibition sponsored by the Northwest Institute of Sculpture provides a snapshot into the materials, prices and artists of the day. This exhibition was housed at the Seattle Art Museum Pavilion with the aim to present recent work of primarily Washington based sculptors and include a few regional sculptors in a non-juried show. Some of the artists included were Manuel Izquierdo, Betty Feves, Jan Zach, Lee Kelly, George Tsutakawa and Phillip Levine. A great addition to your NW art history ephemera collection.
Condition: Very Good, folded as issued; some.....
Item #500
The first printing of Edward Camy's "good-natured" pictorial map for The Alaska Line of the Alaska Steamship company, showing the steamship route plus "suggesting some of the most interesting features of the Territory". Camy's whimsical drawings on the map include moose, bears, mountains, hunters, prospectors, walruses, sled dogs, reindeer, canned fish, oil fields, caribou, and other regional attributes. Seattle was the home of the Alaska Steamship Company and "the Alaska Line is Alaska's most important transportation link to with the States...this is America's last frontier, America's most varied Vacationland." Also.....
Item #1553
An exhibition poster for an early Robert Colescott show of paintings at the Bush House Museum in Salem, OR from October 15-November 5, 1961. Born in Oakland, Colescott was known for his brightly colored canvases that exuberantly explored issues of race and social politics, along with lust and desire. He taught art at Portland State University from 1957-1966, and also traveled to Egypt and Paris for residencies and teaching. In 1970 he returned to California and for 15 years taught at Cal State/Stanislaus, UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art.....
Item #565
A strikingly-designed poster for a unique exhibit at the Bush House Museum in Salem, OR in 1961. After a Dada-inspired Portland exhibit the previous month entitled "Exhibition Syndrome," Jack Eyerly, Director of the Bush House Museum in Salem, OR at the time, produced this "essay exhibition...to introduce and give insights into the historical Dada movement...Objects, reproductions, facsimiles and quotations by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Max Ernst and others caught up in often humorous, always protesting Dada activity of 1916 through 1925 are shown". Many Portland artists.....
Item #566
James Lee Hansen is a staple in NW sculpture and is still working today. This early solo exhibition of his work at the legendary Fountain Gallery in Portland, Oregon is commemorated with this two color poster most likely designed by Dale Ott. folded as issued.
Condition: Good, some .25" closed tears at bottom edge and dents in the paper mostly around the folds. Slight loss of printing along bottom half of vertical middle fold.
Item #495
An exhibition of Oregon artists jurored by Rose Slivka, the editor of "Craft Horizons" and the author of "The Crafts of the Modern World." This folded brochure includes a list of works for the 1972 exhibition held at the Portland Art Museum. The Director of the museum notes in his introductory statement that painting was the dominant medium of the artists included in the exhibition. Additionally, the four artists (and the title of the works) that were granted awards in the exhibition were noted: Louis Bunce, George Johanson, Charles Kelly.....
Item #298
Exhibition announcement for Carl Morris' solo show at the Fountain Gallery in Portland, Oregon from September 16-October 12, 1965. Carl Morris is one of the Northwest's most well-known painters/printmakers of the period between 1930-70. Morris was a WPA artist and good friends with artists working in the Northwest such as Mark Tobey and Clyfford Still. The Fountain Gallery was THE premier gallery of Portland, Oregon in the 1960s. This exhibition document brings together two key players within Northwest art history and is an important addition to a collection focused on.....
Item #248
Exquistely designed by Dale Ott, this Fountain Gallery exhibition document commorates Kenneth Callahan's 1966 solo exhibition at the gallery. Includes multiple folds as issued along with images of the artist.
Condition: Fine.
Item #297
Exhibition poster published by the Fountain Gallery of Portland, Oregon in 1964 in connection with Richard Davis' solo show. The Fountain Gallery was known at THE gallery in Portland in the 1960's and launched the career of many of the most well-known Northwest artists of that period. The poster was designed by Dale Ott.
Condition: Fine, folded as issued on brown kraft paper, no postal markings or address block.
Item #247
