Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1958)
-PAGE R A HERALD AND NEWS. KI.AMATH FM.I.S. OREGON THI RSOAY. .11 LY 24. 1953 Oregon Motes Vast Increase Of Artists Since End Of World War IS By MATT KRAMKIl Auocialed Press Slaff Writer A solitary figure appeared on a dock at Astoria and began sketch ing Ihc waterfront. Another was on a coastal headland, sketch pad in hand, and still another beside a highway in Southern Oregon. Gradually they appeared at places where none ever before had been noticed beside airports, in rail yards and even on city streets, something was up. and the public should have suspected it, too. But Ihe artists said nothing, and, since they are not known for their reticence, it is probable they did not realize themselves how big the boom was in Oregon art. Artists aro not much given to keeping statistics anyway, and olten seem able to pursue their work only in isolation, which sometimes is a place behind a clump of brush and sometimes is a state of mind. It is disturbing to minds other than artists, but in this age nearly everything can be measured land by surveyors, health by insurance companies, and art by supply houses. It isn't easy, however, to get Ihe measurement ol art in Oregon, for artists also have infiltrated behind sales counters. With their minds fixed firmly on other mat ters, they are vague about statis tics. "Sales of art supplies are up. all right. Maybe 111 no, maybe 30 or 40 per cent in recent years. But there is no easy way for me to determine exactly how much," said one sales head, who instructs art classes in Portland at night. It was Ihc same story at an other Portland supply house. where the increase was estimated at perhaps 50 per cent in recent years. But measurements creep in everywhere and a businessman knew how much the sale ol art supplies had gone up in the last decade at the stale's largest art supply house, Gill's in Portland: Nine hundred per cent. That mans 10 artists behind the bush that used to hide one. No wonder they are beginning to push each other into the open. Most of the new ones are Sunday artists, who have multiplied as in come and leisure time have in creased since World War II. It is the Sunday artist you will find on the coast, squinting at a landscape and drawing lines on a canvas he later will entitle, "Vichysoisse." But you also will find him. along with the full-time artist, at the art centers that have sprung up in Oregon communities, the Portland Art Museum, the state fair, and even the Portland Rose Festival. The Oregon Society of Artists is an example of the increase in recent years. The society started with 15 memhers and no money in 1!)26. At first growth was slow. I pen came the post-war bottom. Four years ago the society ac quired its present headquarters a sleek building in Portland West Hills. Today it has 660 mem bers, 110 of them upstate. It offers classes and lectures tor Ihe amateur and the professional. It is one of the principal head quarters of the Sunday artist. Art groups have bohbed up all over the stale. To name a few of them: The Art League of Grants Pass, Ihc Coos Artists League, the ICoquiIle Valley Art Assn.. Corval us Arts ouna, aaiem Art Assn.. Inc., Snake River Valley Art Assn . Vwnantt Art Cenlor I inrnln County Art Center, Vaquina Art rtssn., ana me age rirusners. There are thriving art programs at Oregon Slalc College, the L'ni- versllv of Oregon and nther rnK leges, but the biggest art center in the slate is as mipht hp pv. pected, in Portland. It is the Portland Art Museum, which was the lirst art museum POahlichfH in Iho Panifif Vnrlh. west. That was in 18112. It nearly went under in the depression, and the museum had to appeal to the public for $5,000 to save it. iow ine museum, occupying a :nu;irp hlork hesirto tho miih Park blocks in downtown Port land, is on safer ground. It has nearly doubled ,its membership since World War II, to a total of about 2,000. It is operated by the Portland Art Assn., which holds to the pur pose announced by the founders in 1H'I2: "In mjilfn a rnUnnl inn nr works of art and to erect and maintain a suitable building in which the same may be studied and exhibited; to develop and to encourage the study of art. . . " Some 85 persons study art in day classes and 300 in evening classes there. In addition, 1.200 persons visit the museum weekly The building, located at SW Park and Madison, is closed only on Monday. Wednesday it is open Irom noon until 10 p.m.. and from noon to 5 p.m. on the other days. Resides the extensive collection of paintings, statuary and other objects the museum puts on dis play, the museum has been show ing increasing interest in Oregon art. Max W. Sullivan, director, esti mates the museum singles out an Oregon artist for a one-man show on (our or five occasions a year. In between, there are exhibitions of Oregon sculptors, print makers and painters. The next will be for painters and sculptors, Oct. 13-Nov. 16. Kntries come from many un knowns. A panel of judges selects those considered worthy ol exhibit. The aim is to reward talent with recognition, not to discourage it. Some years up to 75 per cent of the entries reach the exhibit floor. An example: An. ex-shipyard worker took a line of poetry for his theme and with welding torch, a few pieces of metal and five foot length of bamboo put together a piece that won recognition. Not all Oregon art is so ingeni ous, but give it time. At the rate lit is growing, it will capture halflstates ingenuity in the next few the population and hence half the'years. HARRY HAFTER'S August Sale Continues SAVE! 1iaaIIai DAVENPORT $ & CHAIR Heavy, long wearing wool frieze covers. Regular $299.95. Save Vi Out they go at this low, low price. 9th and Klamath Phone TU 4-4878 SCREWDR1VEI always delicious ... made with Smirnoff fJ THE VODKA WAGON WITH Lr;'4Sfi r w. lot . v: y . 1 1 X - - - if the greatest name In wiirnofvoDKA 80 1 100 PcdiI. Dutillil lug Mil. Sit. Finn Stimuli III. (Oit. Il Hlutllii).jllillli4. Cim 5 BILLY SUNDAY Is acting as chairman on the Klamath Agency road conduction crew which is building a new 12-mile two-lane gravel road to replace a one-lane dirt road on the reservation that is virtually impassable in winter. The new road will be an all-weather road and starts at the town of Sprague River, ending about four miles north of Beatty. The "chain" in use is actually a 100 foot steel tape. Formerly surveyors used a chain to meas ure distance, and after the advent of the steel tape, the name chain still persisted. Nelson Sharp Photo INDKIt KNIFE NEW YOHK i API - I.ibrellist Oscar Hammcrstoin II, li.1, under went an operation yesterday at Doctors Hospital (or diverticulitis, an intestinal ailment. A hospital spokesman said his condition was good. SEE THE PROFESSIONAL RODEO July 25-26-27 lookup I featuring Lefty FRIZZELL COLUMBIA RECORDS - GRAND OLE OPRY -COUNTRY AMERICA - TOWN HALL PARTY Freddie HART COLUMBIA RECORDS - TOWN HALL PARTY -COUNTRY AMERICA - RANCH PARTY - TV FILMS Liffle DAVID ROCK 'N ROLL SENSATION HURSHUL CLOTHIER and the OKLAHOMA TRAVELERS SAT. NIGHT DANCING 10 until WZZ, $1.75 PER PERSON (TAX INC.) tut SUITS SLACKS SPORTCOATS SHOES, ETC.! Further Reductions For a Grand Cleanup - Hurry! FAMOUS MAKE T-SHIRTS Just the kind you would pay 1.50 for NOW! Values to $55 Values to $75 . Values to $95 We sti!! haye most all sizes in Regulars, Shorts & Longs SPORT SHIRTS Still A Good Variety! Short and Long Sleeve MEN'S HIGH DRESS SHOES 9 Pair Only Values to 19.95 2 Pair Size 7; 2 Pair Siie 7'2, 1 Pair Size 8; 1 Pair Size 8'j, 1 Pair 9'j, 1 Pair 10 'a; 1 Pair U'i. All go for - FLORSHEIM $5 All Sizes, Black and Brown, Dressy Styles Brogues Values to 27.50 Insulated RUBBER U.S. Rubber-10" Tops-All Sizes Reg. $ 18.95 il Munsingwear INSULATED Underwear' Save Now for Winter! Reg. S5 Short Sleeve Shirts 3.50 Reg. S6 Long Sleeve Shirts 3.95 Reg. S6 Drawers 3.95 Kuppenheimer, Eagle, Timely CO ATS PRICE We Still Have Most All Sizes! Red Hunting SHIRTS Cotton Flannel - All Sizes ,. $11 Winthrop o Buy for now! TSuy for back to school Valuc Jo $17.95 T OP Tjrifc.iiy r COATS Voluci o 15.95 s7 111 PRKE 5 $100 Kuppenheimer Topcoats now $50 $89.50 Samuel Martin, (English Made) . $44.75 $50 Topcoats n0w $25 FAMOUS Imperfect SHIRTS You Know The Name All Sizes in Regular & Sport Collars - Beautiful Plaids
