Art in Watzek Library: Lower Floors of Watzek

Ethel Romig Fuller
Dawn and New Snow poem

David Shratter
8 in One, 2005, Oil on Canvas
It was a small local market on SE Belmont Street at SE 25th Street. I painted it on site, meaning I was standing across the street with my easel each morning for about 2 weeks. It's from a series of Portland cityscapes that I was working on for 8 years. In the series there are 25 oil paintings and over 40 pen and ink drawings. Two other paintings from the series are part of The Regional Arts & Culture Council's (RACC) Portable Works Collection. One pen and ink drawing from the series is part of the Visual Chronicles of Portland Collection.

Bernard Hinshaw
LC Professor of Art 1947-1973

Ken Klos
Designed in 1994

Dalia Ramanauskas
2 Hardware Cartons, 1974
Gift of Justin S. Ebersman

Dalia Ramanauskas
Untitled, no date
Drawing colored ink on paper
Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Schulman

J.B. Blunk, (1926-2002)
Cyprus Log Bench
This sculpted bench set on California basalt was made by J.B. Blunk, a mid-twentieth century potter and sculptor. The log washed in on the shore at Carmel. Blunk wrestled it to his studio in Inverness and left his artistic marks on its natural form. For thirty years the piece was a focal point in the Cliff May-designed home of John and LaRee Caughey in Mandeville Canyon, Los Angeles. Gift of Dr. John Walton Caughey and LaRee, Caughey, 1984

Painted Lady Beetle; Mulsantina picta
Shaken from a tree in the Copeland Ravine, by Chaya Arabia ’15 on March 16, 2015.
Lewis & Clark College; Portland, Oregon.
Imaged by C. Arabia.

James G. Glon
Bust of Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. 1996

LELOOSKA (aka Don Smith), (1933-1996)
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl Northwest Coast)
Unpainted Pole
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) Style 1996
This pole was one of the last carved by Lelooska, a major figure in the rebirth of Indian arts on the Northwest Coast in the latter half of the twentieth century. Raven, a talkative forest figure and one who "stole the daylight," stands atop a mythological seabear. The seabear has a whale's tail but claws of the black bear in the forest.
Gift, Lelooska Foundation, Ariel, WA., 1996

Native American Designs on South Side of the Jubitz Atrium in Aubrey R. Watzek Library, 1967
Aubrey R. Watzek Library, designed by Paul Thiry, built in 1967.

Antanas Sutkus
People of Lithuania
Black and white portraits
Considered one of his most important works, it is a continuing project begun in 1976 to document the changing life and people of Lithuania. Working at the time when Lithuania (as the Lithuanian SSR) was part of the Soviet Union, Sutkus focused on black and white portraits of ordinary people in their everyday life rather than the model citizens and workers promoted by Soviet propaganda.

Winning photographs of the 2016 International Photo Contest, sponsored by the office of Overseas and Off-Campus Programs

Mary Szybist
Apology
Illustration from Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1754), courtesy of the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections. Designed by Heather Watkins for the Berberis Press - For the fourth reading of the Aubrey Watzek Poetry Series, April 28, 2005 Lewis & Clark College Special Collections, Portland, Oregon, 2005 Number 42 of 100

Mary Szybist
The Lushness of It
An Occasion for Poetry: Mary Szybist and Michele Glazer presented at Lewis & Clark College on October 5, 2009 and sponsored by The Library of Congress Center for the Book, The Witter Banner Foundation, and the Lewis and Clark College. Broadside designed & printed in an edition of 150 by Heather Watkins / Paimpsest Press for the Berberis Press

Poems by Mary Szybist's poetry class at Lewis & Clark College in response to William Stafford. "The Little Girl by the Fence at School" copyright 1977, 1998 by the Estate of William Stafford, reprinted from The Way it is.- New & Selected Poems with the permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Berber's Press Lewis & Clark College Special Collections Portland, Oregon 2005 Large paper edition 23 of 50 numbered copies

Heros of the Campaign
Honoring major donors to the campaign for Lewis & Clark 1991-1997
Left to right: John S. Rogers, W. Calder McCall, Keith E. Lindner, James E. and Jane T. Bryson, James F Miller, Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., Michael Mooney, Fred W. Fields, Robert F. Maguire, Jr., Hubert Walker, Anonymous, Duane Vergeer, Chester E. McCarty, and Monroe A. Jubitz
Artist, Wayne H. Chin, 1997, oil on board

LELOOSKA, (1933-1996) Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl Northwest Coast)
Sisiutl
Southern Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) Style 1985
A formidable, double-headed, supernatural monster. A mere sighting of the Sisiutl could cause convulsions and death. Tales recounted how Sisiutl blood rubbed on a warrior's body hardened into stone and repelled arrows. The Sisiull was often associated with dlugwi ("supernatural treasure") and thus decorated wood settees and panels in house interiors.
Gift, Lelooska Foundation, Ariel, WA.

This blanket was presented to Lewis & Clark by the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians at their annual meeting in September 2006, in appreciation for Lewis & Clark's ongoing efforts to build relationships with member tribes. Dedicated at Watzek Library on November 2, 2007.

The Aubrey R Watzek Library Renovation and Expansion
Dedicated with pride on October 5 1995 by Robert B Pamplin Jr., Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and the students alumni, faculty, staff, and friends who with determination and spirit on May 29th 1992 met the Chairman’s Challenge.

L&C Special Collections and Archives Photograph Collections

Don Lelooska (Don Smith, Native American, 1933 to 1996). ca 1967

WATERFALL, 1942. Gift of Kemper Nomland, 2006.
This watercolor is one of the Columbia Gorge waterfalls (probably on Gorton Creek, above the CPS camp at Wyeth). It is signed "Kemper Nomland June 1942."

Turkish Rug

Judith Barrington
Fibonacci (poem)
framed with:
Ursula K LeGuin
Futurology (poem)
Artwork: Marbled endsheet from Vancouver's Voyages de Decouvertes (1798) courtesy of the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections Designed by Heather Watkins for The Berberis Press Printed in an edition of 200 by Firefly Press at Stumptown Printers for the Second Annual Aubrey Watzek Poetry Series, March 22, 2006 Lewis & Clark College Special Collections, Portland, Oregon, 2006

Eleanore Mikus
I Love You Too, 1969
Acrylic and tissue on canvas

This mural of a sea turtle in Aboriginal style art was created by Lewis & Clark College students and the Aboriginal family they stayed with on their Australia Overseas Program in the spring of 2000. Everyone contributed to the mural by painting their handprints and footprints in the turtle's shell. Edy and Dino, two Aboriginal artists, worked on the outline and detail of the turtle (with dot painting).

detail of turtle

Robert Wyville, Bishop Of Salisbury, 1375
Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England
This is a rubbing of the largest effigy-type memorial brass in Britain. It commemorates Robert Wyville, who was Bishopric of Salisbury in 1329, and remained in that post for 46 years until his death in 1375. Rubbing of the brass made by Eleanor Mattersdorff in 1972

The Endangered Alphabets Project by Tim Brookes (right to left)
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Explorare
Manggalugad (to explore)
Language: Tagalog
Script: Baybayin on Maple
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Discere
Surtugai (to learn)
Language: Mongolian
Script: classical Mongolian bichig or Galik on Walnut
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Sociare
Gotong-royong (to work together)
Language: Balinese
Script: traditional Balinese on Cherry

L&C Special Collections and Archives, YMCA Collection. WWI French Military Support Poster

L&C Special Collections and Archives, YMCA Collection. WWI French Military Support Poster

Roxanne Davis, CAS ‘13
I Actually Don’t Even Like Cake That Much, 2013
Inkjet print
The series Why Can’t I Just Eat Like a Normal Person? was based on the premise that there is no such thing as “normal” when it comes to eating habits. After talking to my models about what they perceived to be their own unique relationships with food, I translated their real experiences and emotions into fabricated scenarios, using the photograph to express in a single frame the poignancy—and, at times, absurdity—of these relationships.

Lawrence Kirk, CAS ‘16
From Central Control
Oil on wood