Transformations
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- ISBN 9781930957855
- Weight: 1565g
- Dimensions: 241 x 305mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Showcases work by dozens of extraordinary Northwest Coast artists from the 1950s to the presentSince the 1980s, Oregon-based art collectors George and Colleen Hoyt have amassed one of the finest private collections of Northwest Coast art in the United States. Transformations traces the history of contemporary Northwest Coast Native art since the 1950s. Included are works by some of the region's foremost Native artists of the past half century, including Robert Davidson, Doug Cranmer, Beau Dick, and Susan Point. The collection of over six hundred prints and carvings by over one hundred artists is a promised gift from George and Colleen Hoyt to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Richly illustrated with color photographs, the book features a foreword by John Olbrantz, an essay by Rebecca J. Dobkins, and artist biographies by Tasia Riley.
Exhibition dates: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, September 17–December 17, 2022
Rebecca J. Dobkins is curator of Native American art at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art and professor of anthropology at Willamette University. She is author of The Art of Ceremony: Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon, which grew out of an exhibition project with the nine federally recognized tribes in Oregon, and coauthor of Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25. Tasia D. Riley is a research assistant at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. John Olbrantz is Maribeth Collins Director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.
