Research Catalog

Title

Clifford Gleason : the promise of paint / Roger Hull.

Author

Hull, Roger

Publication

Salem, Oregon : Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gleason, Clifford
• Hallie Ford Museum of Art, host institution.

Description

95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm

Summary

Clifford Gleason (1913-1978), who grew up in Salem and spent his adult life in both Salem and Portland, was a talented and highly original artist whose work remains of keen interest to a small and loyal group of collectors and artists but whose accomplishments are less generally known than those of other Oregon mid-century artists.0'Clifford Gleason: The Promise of Paint' serves as both an introduction and a definitive study of an 'artist's artist,' who until now has not received the sustained attention that he and his work are due. It traces his career from the 1930s until the last months of his difficult life-difficult because of alcoholism, near poverty, and homosexuality in a repressive era. In paint, Gleason found the only realm in which he felt competent, confident, and successful; paint offered the promise of accomplishment.0Roger Hull's knowledgeable text offers a chronological study combining biography, analysis of Gleason's artworks, and assessment of his place within the broader context of contemporary and Pacific Northwest art.0Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, this richly illustrated monograph examines Gleason's identity as a modern artist as he responded to the rapid changes in artistic modernism from the late 1930s, when he studied with Louis Bunce at the Salem Federal Art Center, to the 1970s, when he rethought the legacy of Abstract Expressionism in works that are unique to him, visually beautiful and poetically expressive.00Exhibition: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, USA (20.08-31.10.2020).

Subject

• Gleason, Clifford > Exhibitions
• Painters > Oregon > Exhibitions
• Modernism (Art) > Oregon > Exhibitions
• Modernism (Art)
• Painters
• Oregon

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition entitled Clifford Gleason : the promise of paint, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon, August 20-October 31, 2020.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-83) and index.

Call Number

JQG 21-94

ISBN

• 9781930957831
• 1930957831

LCCN

2020909034

OCLC

1156335713

Author

Hull, Roger, author.

Title

Clifford Gleason : the promise of paint / Roger Hull.

Publisher

Salem, Oregon : Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-83) and index.

Added Author

Gleason, Clifford, artist.

Hallie Ford Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 21-94