As a sculptor and role model to aspiring young artists, Lee Kelly has played a significant role in creating the Northwest regional art scene. This book documents his sixty year career. His work has traversed the aesthetic developments of gestural abstraction, minimalism, and post-modernism, while his vocabulary has always retained a core focus on the balance and grace of architectural geometry and a craftsman’s respect and understanding of the materials at hand. His work is both an art of contemplation and active experience. The text explores Kelly's impact on the art of the Northwest, his public art projects, and places his work in relation to post-World War II American sculpture.

Lee Kelly

Arts & Photography

Guenther, Bruce

Individual Artists

Portland Art Museum

The early twentieth century brought renewed focus upon the image of the coast and witnessed the formation of art colonies in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and Ogunquit and Monhegan, Maine. These creative communities became an inspiration for artists and art students, among them Edward Hopper, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Rockwell Kent, and George Bellows. Visually stunning, Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England explores the importance of place for artists in these colonies, and the development of impressionist Connecticut and modernist Maine within the visual traditions of the coast of New England.
Featuring approximately 80 works, Call of the Coast illustrates each major painting with extensive interpretative text and includes documentary photography to provide historical context for the artworks.

Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England

Danly, Susan

Denenberg, Thomas Andrew

Lansing, Amy Kurtz

History & Criticism

Imperial Tombs of China

Oversized book to accompany the "Imperial Tombs of China" exhibit in the United States. It is extraordinarily rich in content and the broadest scope among the great exhibitions of cultural relics that China has sponsored abroad during the past decade. The more than two hundred objects exhibited are cultural treasures selected from twenty-two institutions in nine provinces and cities in China. They are a feast for the eyes that will delight you and allow you to thoroughly understand the inexhaustible seductiveness and beauty of Eastern culture. Fully illustrated with accompanying text and Index.

Congyun, Lei

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic (Portland Art Museum Art/On the Edge program)

Simon Watson, curator

Exhibition at the Portland Art Museum September 28 through November 14, 1993 shortly after the passing of Oregon's most celebrated painter. Oversized book with full color renderings.

Carl Morris: Paintings 1939-1992 ; [exhibition] Portland Art Museum, September 28 through November 14, 1993

Morris, Carl

Lucinda Parker: Paintings, 1974-1994

Fillin-Yeh, Susan

Contains the text of the Report of the Regional Consultative Meeting on Environmentally Sound and Sustainable Development Indicators, held in Bangkok in November 1996, as well as background documents, and a review of the work done on compiling indicators of sustainable development for the region. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Lena Taku Waste (These Good Things: Selections from the Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection of Native American Art

Politics & Social Sciences

Mercer, Bill

Social Sciences

Portland Art Museum Project for the Millennium

Illustrated exhibition catalog; essay by Bruce Guenther, representative work by 20 artists.

Oregon Biennial 2001

Equivalents Portraits of 80 Oregon Artists

George Johanson

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