Selections from the Oregon Years July 2011
THIS EXHIBITION was designed to run in collaboration
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The Red Vest (fig. 15) was included in The Portrait as a
with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s exhibition,
Mirror. November Garden (fig. 16) was a part of Collabo-
The Making of David McCosh: Early Paintings, Drawing
rations with my Subject. Both are greatly admired paint-
and Prints, which was devoted primarily to McCosh’s
ings that represent the finest work McCosh did in
work before he moved to Oregon in 1934.
Oregon. Anne in a Red Vest is a beautifully organized,
The works in this show were all made during the
sensitive portrait from his early years in Eugene in the
years McCosh lived and worked in Oregon, from 1934
1930s. November Garden is one of the great paintings of
until his retirement from painting in 1971. All of the
his later years in the 1960s, a dramatic, flowing study
works were selected from the exhibitions that had
of the corn stalks in his backyard garden as winter
been presented previously by the Karin Clarke Gallery.
drew near.
