Folk Artist Appearing At Gallery
If you’ve walked past the Douglas Gallery downtown in recent days, no doubt your attention has been drawn to the vivid scenes of Americana displayed in the windows.
The oil paintings are by Jane Wooster Scott, master folk artist, who will make her first personal appearance in Spokane from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the gallery, 120 N. Wall.
Everyone is invited to meet her and browse through the gallery to examine her work.
But don’t be in a hurry. It takes time to see all there is to see in each of Wooster Scott’s paintings. Each stylized rendition of an idealized time in New England at the turn of the century has a story to tell.
Scott now lives in Sun Valley, Idaho, but grew up in Pennsylvania on the edge of rural America and attended a Quaker school near Philadelphia.
She regularly returns to that corner of the country to take photos of pastoral scenes and old, interesting buildings and antiques which she incorporates into her paintings. She scours the back roads and country lanes of New England, searching for the past.
It’s become her “compulsion” to capture moments in time in small towns, great cities, at festivals, sports, politics and in family relationships.
Scott wants “to record the life, color and beauty that I see in the world around me in terms of how it was in the past,” she has said.
Art collectors around the world have Wooster Scott paintings. But, in case you’re never invited to the homes of Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, Carol Burnett, Sylvester Stallone and others, you can drop by the Douglas Gallery to see her paintings permanently on display. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
In Spokane galleries
The Northwest premiere of “Photography: Making a Collection Grow, 1983-1996” opens Friday at Gonzaga University’s Jundt Art Museum. It runs through Dec. 13.
More than 80 of the most historically significant photographs acquired by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts will be on display. The show, which spans 150 years, features such artists as Ansel Adams, Eugene Atget and Dorothea Lange.
A public preview reception will be tonight from 5-7:30 and will include walking tours of the exhibit.
Museum admission is free. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
“Contemporary Japanese Prints 1950-1990,” sponsored by the Japan Foundation, will be shown in the Spokane Falls Community College’s Gallery (Building 6) Friday through Nov. 24.
Also on Friday, Keiko Hara, art professor at Whitman College, will discuss “Japanese Influences in Contemporary Printmaking” at 11:30 a.m. in the Student Union Building.
The exhibit of 75 works by 46 artists includes traditional pieces of woodblock, etchings and silk-screening as well as contemporary techniques using photography, film and video.
Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free.
From around the area
There’s a new art gallery in an old bank in the town of Priest River, Idaho.
The Art Bank, 218 High Street, will have its grand opening from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, featuring the artwork of Barbara Janusz of Sandpoint and Betti Jemison of Priest Lake, Idaho; Terry Austin-Beech of Post Falls, Bob Rowan of Newport, Wash., and Dave Govedare of Chewelah, Wash.
The gallery’s home is the former Citizens State Bank, built in 1911 and with its vault still intact and usable. Recent remodeling has retained the historic flavor of the building, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Building, a spokesman said.
The gallery will be open Thursdays through Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
“From the Heart: These are the Coeur d’Alene Peoples” will have a free showing from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Museum of North Idaho, 115 Northwest Blvd. in Coeur d’Alene.
The exhibit features oral histories from 10 Coeur d’Alene Tribal members.
Other exhibits in the museum include:
“Artistic Tradition in Transition,” featuring beaded bags by Native American tribes.
A model of the steamboat Flyer built by Al Sorenson for the exhibit on steamboats and tug boat operations.
The history of explorers in the Coeur d’Alene area and its railroads, trails, logging lumbering …
The museum closes for the season on Oct. 31.
Works of Doug Hyde, a nationally known artist and former Lapwai, Idaho, resident, are on display through Nov. 21 at the Lewis-Clark Center for Arts & History in Lewiston, Idaho’s Historic First Security Bank.
Also showing are pieces of traditional and contemporary art by Nez Perce artists.
Hyde specializes in sculptures of bronze, limestone, alabaster and marble. His likeness of Lewis and Clark with Nez Perce Chief Twisted Hair and his son Lawyer is the centerpiece of Lewis-Clark State College’s Centennial Mall.
Hyde will discuss his work at 5 tonight in the gallery. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is $1.
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