Aerial Conflict
Master of the WesternLand
Persian Birds
Portulaca
Sea Garden
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Byron J. Gardner
(1930-1992)
Education:
Museum Art School, Portland (1948-52)
Brooklyn Art Museum (1953)
Mexico City College (1954)
Biography:
An art professor at Portland State University from 1967-1992, Gardner was known
for his landscapes of the American Southwest. He used a strong, bright palette
and was inspired by the western landscape, first in Oregon's high desert
country and then in Utah, Nevada, and New Mexico. His early work was
figurative; later, Gardner was one of Oregon's foremost abstract expressionist
painters.
Media:
Oil, watercolor, prints (etching, lithograph, wood cut)
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