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o 4A The Bend Bulletin, Wed., August 26, 1959 k r 1 1 Bioepenaeni: artists, agessrusraers increase public avareness of ar NEWEST COUNTY NO BEARS Deschutes County was the last. It was the grizzly color and not county to be formed in Oregon. It was established in 1916 as the a grizzly bear which gave Grizzly Mountain in Jellerson (.oumy lit 36th county. The first was Wash- name according to area oldlim- 1 . r ... I..UI:t..l in IfMI o.'C ingion uuiuy, eaiuuiiauiu i r,. ...j- By Linda Hambly Bull.tln Staff Wrlttr . Until quite recently, there has been no widespread public de mand for art in Bend. General art has been taught in the grade schools and in the high school for manv years, and art ists have worked independently from time to time. About 11 years ago, a group of students of the extension an class es from the University of Ore gon studied under Miss Jean Sath erland. They formed a club and Mrs. Irene Cothrell became the president. These new members formed the nucleus of what was to become the major body of real ists, inspired by the Central Ore gon scenery. By 1032, (hey had grown in num ber and decided to call them selves the Sagebrushers. Members met to discuss painting and then went in groups to the mountains to sketch. The work of the growing Sage brushers has been a good adver tisement for the Central Oregon countryside. For about five years the artists have exhibited at the Pine Tavern, These pictures have gone Into many a home and be come symbolic of Central Oregon outdoor beauty. While nearly nil members are realists, Pat Lorentz a relative newcomer and creator of the Bul letin's cover pages in this issue, is a notable exception, as she does some work in formal and ab stract style. The early members used media of oil or watercolor or both. On Statt Caplfol Last March, the Sagcbrushers displayed their work in the state capitol. Arrangements were made by J. Pat Metke, Slate Represen tative, and the group became the first of many art societies In Ore- merly blank walls of the Capitol coffee shop, a busy tourist spot. Present activities of the group stem from bi-monthly meetings. At one the members discuss busi ness and at the other, painting. Once every month, at the King ston school, the members take turns in giving an illustrated seminar on masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Sagebrushers are all mem bers of the Oregon Art Alliance and of the Portland Art Museum and can exhibit their work in the shows of these two associations. Field trips are a favorite group activity. The Sagebrushers have encouraged outside art by bring ing travelling exhibits to the Des chutes County Library. To date, the group contains 16 members. All except one are from Bend. Mrs. Ken Austin is from Sisters. While no member has had intensive schooling in art, most of the members have, at one time or another, taken the art apprecia tion course at Central Oregon College. Not Just Painting Some members of the group do not confine themselves strictly to painting. For example, the young est member, Carol Hanshew, 23, uocs many pen-ana-inx ana cnar- j coal SKeicnes. ane nas won prurs . for her soap and wood carvings. Reginald Proby, fornwr Safe brusher, did wood panelling in houses. His paintings differed . from the others in that he portravs widely-varied subjects, largely in a surrealistic manner. Exceptionally gifted among the various independent artists of Bend is Mrs. Gladys Gore. In 1936. when she first moved here, she was painting only in oil and wa tercolor. For the last three years, she has been painting commer cially. Mrs. Gore paints in a great variety of media, as well as a if tr,J I l; fir-; - L J I- i" v.'s gon to hang pictures on the for-wide range in subject-matter. 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This year, Kitty Shaw, the school's ceramics teacher, has added interest to art by success fully experimenting with a red clay. , A number of years ago, Mrs. Gore received a bolt of purple velvet of her mother's. Mrs. Gore, having at the time no idea what to do with it, said on impulse, "I'll paint a picture on it". The old velvet now clothes a beautiful Japanese maiden, life-size. This incident led Mrs. Gore to paint on velvets of many colors, includ ing black, cerise, celestial blue and burnt gold. Intense Color Oils were the paints which she used on the velvet, until one day she decided to try adding fluores cent and iridescent paint. The re sult was rich, intense painting that was seen at its best after dark. Ever since (hen. she has been de veloping her technique on velvet. An expecially exotic velvet painting which now dramatizes a wall in the Gore home is a mas terpiece in ingenuity. About seven feet square, it is a tableau vivant done on blood-red velvet. The sub ject is a lavish Siamese dancing I group in a bejewelled palace hall and is portrayed in highly emo tional color and style. Mrs. Gore's only information was library ma terial from descriptive notes and sketches of early Siamese cos tumes. Another favorite texture of Mrs. Gore is burlap. During the first two years of World War H, there was no available canvas. Artists had either to be satisfied with eliminating oil painting or to find new textures. Mrs. Gore's idea was to cut up a coffee sack that she found at Paulina Lake. There she experi mented with her first burlap painting. This was also the first time that she had ever painted an Indian. She was able to paint an Indian woman which has attract ed widespread attention. A former important loc ;fl artist was the lale Reverend Mr. F. C. Wi.ssenbach, rector of the Episco pal Church. Although he only liv ed here for three vears, starting in ltM9, he was a gifted artist who did some very famous Indian por traits also. He had art training in Europe. He used oil, water-color and pen ind-ink sketches. His paintings were sold all over the country. One, of an Indian woman, is now In the MerryhiH museum. Twelve large Indian portraits are in the museum at Pendleton. One small er one is here at the Tine Tav ern. Mrs. Wlssrnbach began paint ing only quite recently in water- color and pastels. She is another realist, a "primitivist", landscape artist. Art is developing rapidly In Bend schools. Henry Hall, princi pal of Kenwood school, has ex pressed his love of art In many ways, all appealing to school chil dren and adults alike. His first ambition in every old building he enters Is to revive it by filling Its bleak walls wilh pictures and de signs. This he has done In many a school room. He has designed floats and par ty favors. He has promoted not only his own, but also the art work ol school children. At pres ent, he teaches lettering at Ken wood. Kiln Per Ceramics Since 1!H5 at Kenwood ceram ics has been taught to grades one through six. As Kenwood was the only school for many years to possess a kiln, it did the potter)' baking for Kingston as well as outboard motor boat in only two (or its own stud('nt This year,' evenings. however, Kenwood has a new kiln, j More school art at the Hist high so Kingston uses the old Kiln 1 school level is laughl by William time is now rut in half with nrw-i K.istm.-m. srt instructor of Central found paint which docs not n'cdj Oifjon College, Betorc his arrival here in 1955, Mrs. Barbara Stein hauser taught art. She was the first art teacher there. She taught art appreciation by means of col ored slides and photographs of some of the best in pictorial ma Madras ciently Kenwood's art program has terial, loaned by various libraries been furthered in new ideas by of the different states. It was a Mrs. Paul Smith. For the last six I years, she has been teaching chil-! dren how to make dry buttermilk-' and-chalk drawings. She rcmem-1 bcrs reading about the process . somewhere once and decided to try It on her own. The result of the trial was that children were delighted. Mrs. Smith also teaches water color, paper sculpturing and cray-ola-watcr-color pictures. Art at the high-school level in Bend is undergoing gradual but considerable changes. MiSs Shaw, 1 art coordinator for all the schools, is spending her fourth year in evolving an art plan to meet the; great influx of students, especial- j ly to the high school. Compulsory Study i In the upper grades art at pres ent is compulsory in grade 7. The type of art here is arts and crafts, taught by Mrs. James Betts. In the various grades of high school, the following are also taught: flower and dried arrange ments, ceramics, lettering. Illus trations, pastcU, chalks and wa tercolors. An outstanding artistic high school course offered is the one in industrial arts. Paul Smith has been the instructor there. He has always encouraged self-expression in art. When he first came to Bend. 12 years ago, industrial arts was of fered only to boys. Mechanical drawing and woodwork were the skills taught. Only about six years ago could girls take the course. The first group of girls totaled seven. Five of them took for one year only. Violet Klobas and Mary King however, completed their school in woodwork. Since the junior and senior high schools have gone into separate buildings, the industrial arts have become much more extensive. Roy E. Lively, a mechanical drawing instructor, was instru mental in the course's expansion program. All seventh graders have to take industrial arts. The course includes woodwork, uphol stery, plastics and an introduction to mechanical drawing and leath er tooling. Wins Honor Very recently, Melvin Kroker, one of Smith's students, won hon orable mention from the Ford Foundation for his ranch-style house plan. Another student. Glen Raymond, partially designed, and constructed a lamp of six differ ent woods all foreign to Oregon. The combination of Eastern map le, Tennessee cedar, African Pal dajo, black walnut and two types of mahogony is a masterpiece that his teacher feels proud to exhibit. Smith has not confined his leaching to school children. From l'.HS to 19.V!, he gave adult night classes. Due year they learned about boat building, and another year, cabinet-making. One wom an built a big hutch; another, a cedar chest. Last ear, Smiih got a fiberlay man to help him mould a fiber glass boat. With the additional help of Douglas Thompson, the men moulded the enure lu-foot survey course in painting, sculp ture and architecture throughout the ages. Begins Courses When Eastman arrived, he be gan teaching painting in oil and watercolor, drawing, display de sign, as well as art appreciation. 1 He is now adding basic design, sketching and lettering (primar ily artistic). In September, the classes will all be doubled to two-and-one-half hours in length. The college gives classes either for; credit or audit, and has recently j been approved for sculpture and a fuller art appreciation course next fall. Also in the coming fall, as is j the college's custom, student dis plays will be put in the Pacific Power and Light Company win- j dow, during National Art Week, i Also by way of showing their j work, the college tries to keep a , current display of art work in the j display case in the foyer of the high school. j Mostly Realism The majority of the college's art work is realism, interspersed j with some modern formal design work. Eastman himself is an arch realist specializing in ranch paint ings. He is a commercial artist on the side. One of his murals, done in the spring of 1956, is in the Land Mart office. He recent ly exhibited a scries of Oregon watercolors at the Archery Field Meet at Fall River. For the Water Pageant in July, he designed the special scarves and did the arch designs. This year, as last year, he is judge of the art exhibit at the Deschutes County Fair. Eastman has found further real istic interest this summer in Red mond. There he teaches 17-18 peo ple in the Redmond Art Associa tion, under leadership of Mrs. Ot to Lindh. The entire group is strictly realistic, and believes, like Eastman, that Central Ore gon is a haven of scenes worthy of capturing as near to life as possible. jt s V f i U AM 1 Jt n CCI If You have a right to be! You're the kind of customer ws like one who will appre ciate our finer cleaning of eve rything you and your family wear. Just try us! CITY CLEANERS AND DYERS , Downtown 1032 Wall EV 2-5691 8th at Greenwood fn The Chic Dress Shoppe i I EASTERN OREGON MILLS, INC. 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