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Along the Willamette Near Oregon City
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Hallie Ford Museum of Art
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Melville Wire was both an artist and a Methodist minister. Born in Austin, Illinois, he came to Oregon at the age of seven when his father was named pastor of the First Methodist Church in Salem. As a young boy, he took art lessons from Marie Craig at Willamette University and was a painter and etcher throughout his life. A graduate of Garrett Theological seminary in Evanston, Illinois, he was also a minister, serving a total of 61 years as a pastor of Methodist churches throughout Oregon.
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Clouds, Landscape paintings, Landscapes (Representations), Oil paintings, Paintings, Plants, Rivers, Trees