Art Exhibit Displays
Work of Portlander
By MAYRE BROWNLEE
Miss Ruth E. Halvorsen, whose work is now on exhibit in
the Little Art Gallery, is expected in Eugene on December 1,
according to Miss Maude Kerns, associate professor of art edu
cation. It may be possible for the Portland artist to give a
demonstration of her working methods while she is here.
Miss Halvorsen, whose water colors are now on display in
the Little Art Gallery, received her
early art training at the Portland
Art museum, and at the Univer
sity extension division in Portland.
While traveling in Europe with
K. H. Powers, she attended the
1928 International Art conference
is. Prague, and later studied at
Pratt institute in Brooklyn and at
Columbia—receiving a degree of
bachelor of arts in 1935 and a de
gree of master of arts in 1938.
One of her teachers, Charles
Martin, helped her to develop the
vigorous technique which is evi
denced in her paintings of Pro
vincetown, Mass; Mexico, and Ore
gon exhibited at the gallery. Those
done in Provincetown have a
smooth, elegant look; there is a
painting of a white church spire,
pure and inspiring, and several
gnarled old trees through which
one can almost feel the wind blow
ing. Also painted in Massachusetts
were the abstract and semi-ab
stract group.
Miss Halvorsen’s style is equally
adaptable to the Mexican scenes,
and they are carried out in rich,
warm, earth colors of brown, red,
and orange. There are three ex
pressive paintings representing her
work in Mexico under Charles
Martin: two of housetops in Taxco,
and one of peon women and
children.
Her strength and vitality of
i brush strokes, her fine line and
color, are most evident, however,
in the Oregon studies. A rushing
mountain stream, delicate yet not
weak; a magnificent view of the
Three Sisters peaks, and a beau
tiful scene in an eastern Oregon
pine forest, show especially Miss
Halvorsen's emotional feeling tow
ard nature.
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