A quiet country town nestled at the foot of Washington's Blue Mountains with one high school and a population of just under 30,000 is the unlikely home of a world-class art organization, the Walla Walla Foundry. On one particular day, curious onlookers outside the unassuming building could have observed a crane lifting a women's torso onto legs to form a giant urethane foam model, several stories tall, now ready to be molded and cast. Once inside, they might have watched expert workers pour glowing molten metal into a monument-sized plaster mold, weld architectural elements, perform wax tooling, or remove a rubber mold from a huge plaster model. Established in 1980 and winner of the 1996 Governor's Arts Award, the Walla Walla Foundry has become a prominent fine arts bronze casting facility where skilled technicians craft artistic vision into actual artwork through digital scanning, machining, manipulation, assembly, casting, fabrication, and design. Renowned artists such as Robert Arneson, Terry Allen, Deborah Butterfield, Jim Dine, and Tom Otterness have utilized the firm's services to create, produce, and install finished art pieces worldwide. With full color photography and informative text, the Walla Walla Foundry celebrates the collaboration between artist and technician, explores the fascinating journey of metal sculpture from initial concept to final installation, and documents the history and achievements of this extraordinary eastern Washington enterprise.

Extending the Artist's Hand: Contemporary Sculpture from the Walla Walla Foundry

Arts & Photography

Wells, Keith

History & Criticism

Museum of Art/Washington State University

Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings brings together more than 70 works spanning 30 years of this remarkable artist's development. It traces the evolution of Hansen's work from his tenderly rendered narrative paintings of the 1970s to bolder canvases in which the palette has become more vibrant, the compositions more complex, and the imagery more iconic. This survey exhibition and illustrated catalogue present an artist of great talent and emotional range, following a deeply American eccentric tradition that includes artists such as H. C. Westermann, Red Grooms, William T. Wiley, and Philip Guston. The book includes an introduction by Museum of Art curator Keith Wells; Hansen's own commentaries, in conversation with Wells, on more than 20 individual paintings; a tribute to Hansen by cartoonist and fellow artist Gary Larson; a chronology highlighting important events and persons in the artist's life; and more than 100 color plates.

Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings

Museum of Art Washington State univ

As I Saw It

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Independently published

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