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June 7, 2017
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Wallowa Lake painting featured in gallery
Photo Courtesy Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“Wallowa Lake” by Stephen W. Harley (1863-1947) was painted 1927-1928. It will be featured prominently in the Abby Aldrich
Rockefeller Folk Art Museum’s Collection opening in July 2017 in Williamsburg, Va.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Animation event
set at Wallowa
An animation workshop
with Emmy Award-winning
stop motion animator Teresa
Drilling will be 10:30 a.m. to
noon Friday, June 9, at Wal-
lowa City Hall, 104 N. Pine.
Join Drilling for a free talk
on the history and techniques
of animation, followed by a
group pixilation animation.
The event is arranged through
Wallowa Public Library.
Melville earns
4-H scholarship
Bryce Melville has re-
ceived the Wallowa Coun-
ty 4-H Association $1,000
scholarships presented to a
high school senior who has
been involved in the program.
Bryce will be attending Blue
Mountain Community Col-
lege in the fall to pursue a
degree in law enforcement.
He has been involved in 4-H
for nine years, including dog,
horse and beef projects.
He plans to use the money
earned from his 4-H market
animals to help pay for tui-
tion, rent, and books.
EHS class of ‘72
plans reunion
Enterprise High School
class of ‘72 will hold its 45th
class reunion June 16-17. Ac-
tivities begin 5 p.m. Friday
evening with a meet and greet
at Bob and Mary Kay Pace’s
home, 84808 Walker Lane.
Bring snacks and refresh-
ments. On Saturday around 2
p.m., a barbecue will be held at
a private residence. The meat
will be provided, please bring
side dishes, snacks, drinks and
ice. Don’t forget your lawn
chairs and suntan lotion.
Alpine Meadows will
host a golf tournament Sat-
urday with check in at 8 a.m.
Friends, family, teachers and
classmates from all Wallowa
County Schools are welcome.
Lostine River run
slated for July 1
Sign-ups are being accept-
ed for the 34th Annual Lostine
River Run and Walk 7 a.m.
Saturday, July 1 at the Old
Lostine School in Lostine.
There will be three cours-
es: a 10K, 5K and a one-mile
walk around Lostine. Buses
leave Lostine for the start of
the 5K and 10K at 8:15 a.m.,
and the race begins 9 a.m. The
mile course event at 10 a.m.
A painting of Wallowa lifestyle represented by farm
Lake will be featured prom- life. In the mid ‘20s, he set off
inently in the Abby Aldrich to visit relatives in Califor-
Rockefeller Folk Art Muse- nia and to explore the Pacifi c
um’s Collection opening in Northwest.
The landscape there en-
July 2017 in Williamsburg, Va.
The museum is one of two thralled him, and he made it
curated by The Art Museums the subject of four of his fi ve
of Colonial Williamsburg and known oil paintings.
According to one biogra-
includes the nation’s premier
collection of American folk pher, Harley’s siblings had
art, with more than 7,000 folk moved out to the burgeoning
art objects made during the West Coast many years prior
18th, 19th and 20th centuries. to his visit. Jeffrey Miller sur-
“Wallowa Lake,” an oil on mises their descriptions of the
canvas by Stephen W. Harley abundant fl ora and fauna drew
Harley westward.
(1863-1947), was
However, instead
painted in Oregon
The landscape
1927-1928.
there enthralled of utilizing his tal-
ents Harley spent
Harley, who
him, and he
most of his time
was born and
made it the
exploring, fi sh-
raised on a Mich-
subject of four
igan farm, found of his fi ve known ing and drinking,
Miller says.
his artistic expres-
oil paintings.
“He was a me-
sion late in life in
ticulous painter
the magnifi cent
scenery of the Pacifi c North- using a magnifying glass to
west, a museum spokesman capture the fi ne detail of his
said. He never married and subjects,” Miller said. Other
remained on the Mid-Western works from his Western ad-
farm through both his parents’ ventures include “South End
of Hood River Valley.”
lifetimes.
On the back of “Wallowa
After their deaths, Harley
became increasingly restless Lake” he wrote, “by S.W. Har-
and hostile to the confi ning ley (The Invincible).”
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