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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Lynnette Haozous
Last week was an exciting week at the museum with artist Lynnette Haozous, and her assistant Andrew Benally, here from Albuquerque, New Mexico. They were on hand to install Into […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Frank Okada
Frank Okada once described his work as being “dedicatory in nature.” He said, “My parents, through good and bad times, always placed the first portion of newly cooked rice before […]
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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: Shirley Gittelsohn
Shirley Gittelsohn’s Family Portrait is featured in the current exhibition, Portraiture from the Collection of Northwest Art. The painting depicts her adult children, the family pets, her relaxed husband, herself, […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Sun Yi
This joyful, exuberant painting is an example of the rich vocabulary of auspicious symbols in Chinese art. The combination here of flowering peonies with pink crabapple and white magnolia blossoms, […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Nez Perce artist
With the school year beginning, I began to think about children and how objects such as dolls are so universal. This Nez Perce doll was surely made for children in […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Diego Rivera
It’s back-to-school time! In this lithograph of 1932, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera celebrates the importance of “education for all” as one of the guiding tenets of the Mexican Revolution. Here, […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Lewis W. Hine
I think of photographer Lewis Hine every Labor Day. He was deeply affected by the long hours and low pay he earned while working to help support his widowed mother […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Cameron Martin
The highly detailed work Selvian by Cameron Martin both excites and tricks my eye. Is this a photograph? A screenprint? A painting? Martin draws from multiple processes to create this […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Beatrice S. Levy
As cooler temperatures roll in, I am already feeling nostalgic for summer. This moody etching by Beatrice S. Levy captures some of the longing and freedom of the season. Born […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Playing Cards
The Native American art collection of the Portland Art Museum contains a number of surprising objects that have fascinating but little-known histories behind them. This set of Apache Playing Cards […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Joan Mitchell
“Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work.” —Joan Mitchell Mitchell is one of the foremost painters of Abstract Expressionism. In the 1950s, she lived […]