Driftage

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dc.contributor.authorWilliam Hubert Givler (1908-2000)
dc.contributor.authorGivler, William Hubert (1908-2000)
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-20T19:25:32Z
dc.date.available2022-07-20T19:25:32Z
dc.descriptionDriftage, one of Givler's most important paintings, was exhibited in the Oregon Annual for 1949 at the Portland Art Museum; the Oregon Centennial Exhibition of 1959 at the Portland Art Museum; and the exhibition 'Art of the Pacific Northwest,' presented in 1974 at the Smithsonian Institution, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum. The first owner of Driftage was Stewart H. Holbrook, the Oregon author, who wrote of it in the Sunday Oregonian Magazine (January 8, 1950): 'I never saw, in life, a beach like that portrayed in 'Driftage,' nor a sky, nor a woman. Yet the total effect was little short of a blow - a scene of a brooding, sinister sky, of winds wild beyond knowing, of chaotic flotsam some to shore, of the figure of a girl who might well have been a witch of the storm, or some siren of the reefs - a scene both foreboding and beautiful, filled with the savage movement of unseen forces, with disturbing forms and
dc.description.sponsorshipMaribeth Collins Art Acquisition Fund and Gift of Elaine Bernat and Roger Saydack
dc.formatJP2
dc.format.extent25.5" x 35.5"
dc.format.mediumPainting
dc.format.mediumOil on Canvas
dc.identifier.otherSAY99.01
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10177/19487
dc.publisherHallie Ford Museum of Art
dc.relation.isformatofCD Location: Hatfield Library Archives and Hallie Ford Museum. TIF: CD_HFMA_TIF_2, created May 2005. Cannon Raw: CD_HFMA_CRW_1, created May 2005. JPEG: CD_HFMA_JPEG_1, created May 2005.
dc.relation.ispartofHallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem Oregon
dc.relation.ispartofNorthwest Art Collection
dc.rightsFor use information see: http://www.willamette.edu/arts/hfma/collections/copyright.html
dc.subjectBeaches
dc.subjectBirds
dc.subjectClouds
dc.subjectOil paintings
dc.subjectPaintings
dc.subjectSand
dc.subjectSeas
dc.subjectSeascapes
dc.subjectSunrises & sunsets
dc.subjectWinds
dc.subjectWomen
dc.titleDriftage
dc.typeimage
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local.cultureNorth American / United States / Oregon
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