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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Maurice Denis
As many of us gather this weekend with our households, extended family and friends, or even just our furry companions, we will center time together, and may even take a […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Pierre Bonnard
As the current Private Lives exhibition makes clear, the Nabis artists loved depicting children. Not only were they part of the artists’ intimate family circles, but children also offered an […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Private Lives
After resetting the clocks and settling in for a dark winter, I am reminded of the many scenes of lamplight in the exhibition Private Lives: Home and Family in the […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Pierre Bonnard
After a hot, dry, summer, I cheered the recent return of rain to Portland. More than 100 years ago, French artist Pierre Bonnard captured the magic of a rainy night […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Summer of Love
The summer of 1967 was filled with drugs, sex, and rock and roll, earning it the title “Summer of Love.” It was, in other words, Hot Vax Summer before any […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnArt and Writing During the Pandemic: Celebrating the Write Around Portland Partnership
It has been more than one year since Write Around Portland and the Portland Art Museum began collaborating on weekly, art-inspired writing prompts to sustain our souls and our sense […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Edward Penfield
Congratulations to the Class of 2021! This charming poster, advertising the June edition of Harper’s Magazine, gives a nod to the graduates of 1895. Artist Edward Penfield is credited with […]
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ConnectDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Jacob Lawrence
This piece by Jacob Lawrence is full of activity, of working and building, of creating something new. The energy of the piece invites us to engage with it, to put […]
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ConnectDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett created these lithographs in honor of Margaret Walker’s seminal poem “For My People.” Rather than illustrating the poem literally, Catlett transforms Walker’s powerful words about Black experience into […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Larry Rivers
Something about the diagrammatic silhouettes and obscured labels in Larry Rivers’s An Outline of History hit differently when I came across it in PAM’s Online Collections today. The shapes and […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Edward Penfield
In the 1890s, color posters advertising books, magazines, and newspapers exploded onto the scene. Initially inspired by French designs, American artists soon created their own unique style. Edward Penfield led […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Will Barnet
“On Monday, curator Grace Kook-Anderson shared Jacob Lawrence’s inspiring image of voters, a screenprint he prepared for the Kent Bicentennial portfolio. As she notes, the commissioned artists were asked to […]