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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Terresa White, Mark Tetpon, and Don Johnston
Seal Vision: Shared Spirit celebrates the inter-related lives of seals with the people and animals of the far north. Echoing the format of Yu’pik dance masks, this striking mixed media […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Ralph Chessé
Ralph Chessé experimented with a variety of styles from cubism to expressionism throughout his career, and the form of his work ranged from murals to puppetry, though painting took precedence. […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Jonathan Calm
In the self-portrait Double Vision (Record), artist Jonathan Calm assumes the position of past and present-day landscape photographers—standing under a dark cloth, using a large-format view camera. He poses in […]
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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: Hank Willis Thomas
Back in November, we closed the national tour of the PAM-organized exhibition, Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… The works in the exhibition stick with me and I continue […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Kitao Shigemasa
This print is one of 12 split-screen compositions that represent each month of the year. Much like writing resolutions or eating black-eyed peas, The First Month shows activities associated with […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Haudenosaunee / Iroquois artist
This small but ornate pouch represents a very distinctive beadwork innovation created by Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) artists in the mid- to late-19th century. Small fabric bags, pin cushions, photo frames and […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Sara Cwynar
Sara Cwynar’s Encyclopedia Grid (Acropolis) tugs at my wanderlust. During the pandemic, I’ve traveled very little and have not been very far from Portland. Here, Cwynar arranges what appear to […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Beth Van Hoesen
Beth Van Hoesen’s cocktail drinkers, though created in 1946, seem to show the same world-weariness that has gripped many of us throughout the tumultuous year. They are prepared, I imagine, […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Keisai Eisen
In 2021, the Year of the Ox begins. 1829 was also an ox year. Poets in Mino province commissioned the artist Keisai Eisen to design this special print to commemorate […]
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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 MomentDiscoverLearnTop 10 Daily Art Moments
When the pandemic began and the Museum first closed its doors earlier this year, our curators took to social media like never before. With galleries closed, our Daily Art Moment […]