Research Catalog

Title

Nelson Sandgren : an artist's life / Roger Hull

Author

Hull, Roger

Publication

• [Salem, Oregon] : Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, [2016]
• Seattle : University of Washington Press
• ©2016

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Sandgren, Nelson, 1917-2006
• Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

Description

87 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

The Oregon artist Nelson Sandgren (1917-2006) worked in three distinct media - oil painting, watercolor, and lithography - distinguishing himself in each of these modes throughout his sixty-five-year career. Nelson Sandgren: An Artist's Life is the first in-depth study of this mid-century Oregon modernist who was born in Canada, grew up in Chicago, and moved with his family to Oregon during the Depression. As a watercolorist who loved to paint on site, often on the Oregon coast, Sandgren worked in the tradition of Winslow Homer and John Marin. In oil painting, he combined modernist abstraction with Pacific Northwest landscape imagery, in this practice paralleling Louis Bunce, Carl Morris, and other Oregon moderns. As a lithographer, Sandgren was central to the printmaking culture that Gordon Gilkey promoted at Oregon State university, where Sandgren taught for thirty-eight years. Roger Hull provides a detailed biography and a close analysis of Sandgren's key artworks while demonstrating Sandgren's significant place in Pacific Northwest modernist tradition.00Exhibition: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, USA (14.05-17.07.2016).

Subject

• Sandgren, Nelson, 1917-2006
• Sandgren, Nelson, 1917-2006 > Exhibitions
• Painters > Oregon

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This book was published in connection with a retrospective exhibition arranged by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University entitled Nelson Sandgren: An Artist's Life. The dates for the exhibition were May 14-July 17, 2016"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 1930957750
• 9781930957756

OCLC

950639614

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library