Marjorie McDonald (1898, Akron, Indiana-1995, Corvallis, Oregon)
The Family Farm,
1988. Collage. Marjorie McDonald was awarded a 1988 Art About Agriculture
Purchase Award sponsored by the Lamb Foundation. More of her art is available
at: http://home.teleport.com/~lionne/marjorie.htm
"When I discovered in my 70's that I had creative talent
that would keep me interested and occupied for the rest of my life, well, it
was serendipitous. My life is full of color and pictures and friends. I consider
myself a lucky person."
Marjorie McDonald
1988
Betty Feves (1918-1985)
#15 Landscape Segment, 1983, Ceramic
Betty Feves was awarded the 1984 Lamb Foundation Purchase Award for accessioning this sculpture into the Art About Agriculture permanent collection.
“My strength as an artist is in my imagination, the ability to create, to bring ideas into form that will have an impact upon people, to make them aware of beauty and love in the simple things all around us: the clay, the rocks, the forests, the streams, the fields. The arts teach creativity better than anything else, and it is creativity that will bring about change and betterment of the human relations that we all must learn to cherish.”
Betty Feves
(Undated)
Marge Eaton Johnson’s, Clear Color Farm, 1998, watercolor is the signature artwork for the 2006 Art About Agriculture touring art exhibition. In 1999 Marge was granted the Dean and Director Award, College of Agricultural Sciences and Oregon Agriculture Experiment Station. Purchase of this artwork for the Art About Agriculture permanent collection was made possible in part by a gift from Missy and Thayne Dutson. In her 1999 artist’s statement about the painting, Marge says:
“I have lived and worked in the Northwest for forty years and have always been fascinated by the light. The air is so clear that sunlight and shadows become sharp definitions. When it is sunny, I collect information for future work and work outdoors. On cloudy days, I move to my studio. Watercolors are the perfect medium to transcribe onto paper our surroundings.
“The white paper allows watercolors to tint the surface and bounce back light. This gives translucency to the process that I find exciting.
“Considering the entire piece of paper as only the perimeter of my design, I concentrate on weaving layers of color as the subject emerges. Veils of washes create continuity as well as adding more information about the theme or subject, but allow some mystery to remain. Playful splashes of colors add rhythm and accents to further embellish the surface. Throughout the work, the strength of light and shadows guides the brush to transcribe the spirit of the theme.
“Watercolors are a medium whose limits are endless. There is always something to be learned and new work to look forward to. I paint for the joy of discovery.”
The College of Agricultural Sciences is grateful to Marge Johnson for granting reproduction permission, and to Monica Whipple for her imaginative poster design.
Andrew Haley's, Composition II, 2002, a pastel, is the signature artwork for Tour 2004. Haley was granted the 2002 Betty Brose Art About Agriculture purchase award. Composition II, is currently on display in the Oregon State University Office of Student Enrollment, 110 Kerr Administration Building.
Andrew Haley was born in Washington D.C. in 1938. He studied political science and law. Haley began experimenting with light sculpture in 1968 in Paris, France. Haley continued doing light sculpture in Boston, Massachusetts until 1977, when the focus of his art turned to portraiture, large-scale drawings, and painting. In 1984 Haley and his family moved to London, England where he concentrated on painting landscapes and portraits. In 1993 the Haley family moved to Portland, Oregon, where Andrew set up his studio in the industrial port area on the Willamette River.
