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Join us this year to see the work of Percy
L. Manser, a Columbia Gorge artist who
was greatly admired and loved by the
people of the region for his generous nature and his landscapes.
In May, the museum will again host the Outdoor Sculpture Invitational. Conincidentally, we announce that the museum’s permanent collection of outdoor sculptures grew in 2007 by the addition of three new engaging works by Northwest
artists. Through gifts such as these, thousands of visitors will be able to enjoy this awe-inspiring work in the gardens at Maryhill.
Later in the season the museum will present Andy Warhol’s work through the generosity of Jordan Schnitzer and his Family Foundation.
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March 15 – July 6
Percy Manser (1886 – 1973), an outstanding regionalist of his day, lived and worked in Hood River, Oregon between 1917 and his death in 1973. Born and educated in England, he moved to the Hood River Valley by way of Canada to become a fruit farmer. Inspired by the grandeur of the mountains and valleys of the region, he began to paint landscapes that quickly became widely popular with residents throughout the Columbia River Gorge.
Today his work is still admired and can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the U.S. General Services Administration Collection at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon Historical Society, and Maryhill Museum of Art. The year 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the first solo exhibition of his work at Maryhill and the museum is commemorating it with a retrospective of the artist’s work that includes more than 40 paintings, photographs and documents.
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May 10 – October 31
This annual exhibit in the museum’s sculpture garden presents large-scale works by some of the Pacific Northwest’s most noted sculptors including Gregory Glynn, Stuart Jacobson, Alisa Looney, David Miller, Dennis Peacock, Mylan Rakich and Tom Urban. The Invitational began in 1996 to complement the museum’s Auguste Rodin Gallery and to showcase contemporary Northwest sculpture.
Also on view, is work from the permanent Outdoor Sculpture Collection by Julian Voss-Andreae, Brad Cloepfil, Tom Herrera, Mel Katz, Heath Krieger, Jill Torberson, Jeff Weitzel and Leon White.
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July 19 – November 15
During the 1960s American artist Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) began to explore the iconic status of everyday objects such as his images of Campbell's soup cans and his portraits of such notable personalities as Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The work he produced established Warhol as the rising star in what was to become known as the Pop Movement. In the 1970s his fascination with portraiture grew and he began producing dozens of vibrant portraits that had a lasting effect on popular culture and art.
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This exhibit includes portraits by Warhol of The Beatles, Sitting Bull, General Custer, Geronimo, Queen Elizabeth II, Jimmy Carter, Marilyn Monroe, Liza Minnelli, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the emblematic Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato). Also shown are portraits by artists Jennifer Bartlett, Chuck Close, Osvaldo Salas Freire, Red Grooms, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, and Tom Wesselman. They portray Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway, John and Robert Kennedy, and others.
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