WE LAUNCH our 69th season with the exhibit Percy L. Manser: Grandeur and Light.
Percy Manser's landscape paintings are inspired by the natural grandeur and light of the mountains and valleys of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington. He received regional and national recognition earning him an eminent place in Northwest art.
As it does today, Maryhill Museum of Art served as a showcase for emerging Northwest artists when it opened in 1940. The museum’s first director, Clifford Dolph (1901–79), developed a congenial relationship with Manser that resulted in several solo exhibitions at the museum from 1941 through 1956.
Coincident with the exhibit of Percy L. Manser's work, Maryhill Museum of Art members Jim and Sue
Ann Foster have generously donated a brilliant
oil painting by Percy Manser to the permanent collection. The painting, once owned by Jim’s
mother, has been in the family since the 1960s. Fall Landscape eloquently portrays the colors and ambience of a warm fall day in the Columbia
River Gorge.
The exhibit opens March 15 and runs until July 6, 2008.
View a 5-minute video presentation of the Grandeur and Light exhibit given by Lee Musgrave, Curator of Exhibits.
Another exciting acquisition in 2008 is William Samuel Parrott's painting, Mt. Hood With Lost Lake. This work was generously donated by Eugene E. Pomplitz, of Vancouver, Washington from his personal collection to acknowledge his fondness for Maryhill Museum.
William Samuel Parrott was born in Missouri in
1843 and at the age of four traveled to Oregon with
his family. He studied at the San Francisco Museum
of Art and is known for his paintings of mountains
and lakes. Parrott worked in Portland and later traveled throughout the
isolated regions of Oregon, Washington, and
California capturing wild and remote landscapes
on canvas. His work is respected today for its fineness of
detail and for the unique pink and grey toned
skies which were his trademark.
The museum plans to exhibit Mt. Hood
With Lost Lake in the New Acquisitions Gallery
in 2008.
Browse the What's Happening section for the 2008 calendar of programs and events or download our 2008 Exhibits brochure (PDF).
Upcoming special exhibitions:
Outdoor Scultpture Invitational, May 10 – October 31
Andy Warhol and Other Famous Faces, July 19 – November 15
