Description
Salem Art Association, Published 2017. Wraps, [48] pp. (unpaginated); 21 x 24 cm (oblong); illustrated with color plates. Essays by T. R. Melton and David Wilson (Gallery Director, Bush Barn Art Center), with an artist's statement by Lindburg.
Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Inscribed by the artist on title page, personalized to a first-name recipient. Glossy gray-brown paper covers with white lettering on front and an illustrated panel on rear (Study of Leeks, 2015); mild shelf and edge wear. Staple bound; binding tight. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Catalogue of the Nancy Lindburg Retrospective Exhibition at Bush Barn Art Center, Salem Art Association, Salem, Oregon, January 20 - February 25, 2018, surveying her painting from 1952 to 2017. Color plates are captioned with title, date, dimensions, medium and owner. They cover early work (Still Life with Tulips, after a Dutch still life, 1952), 1960s family portraits, still lifes, Dakotascape landscapes of the North Dakota prairie (two in the Oregon State Capitol), and the large color-field canvases she began in 1991 (Release, Angel, Epiphany, Watermusic). Born in Fargo and trained at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Lindburg was Executive Director of the Salem Art Association from 1973 to 1978 and a guiding figure in Oregon's Art in Public Places program.