The Saward Art Collection

ARTISTS    HOME
Aerial Conflict

Master of the WesternLand

Persian Birds

Portulaca

Sea Garden
 

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)