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A painting by James Lavadour, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation and founder of Crow’s Shadow Institute for the Arts, has been purchased for the Oregon
Capitol Art Collection in Salem.
Lavadour painting purchased
for Capitol Art Collection
SALEM – A painting by James Lavadour,
an enrolled member of the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
and founder of Crow’s Shadow
Institute for the Arts, has been purchased
for the Oregon Capitol Art Collection.
Purchase of the painting was announced
in February by the Oregon
Arts Commission and the Oregon State
Capitol. The work is the first purchase
underwritten by The Ford Family Foundation’s
Art Acquisition Program, a new
resource for major collection to support
the acquisition of seminal works by acclaimed
Oregon visual artists.
One of the most prolific and respected
living artists in the region, Lavadour
is known for his bold and abstracted
landscape paintings. Lavadour’s Flag 2
marked a significant period for the artist
as he deepened his interest in architectural
abstractions. The work was first shown
in his 2001 exhibition “Intersections” at
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland. The
painting was also included in the Hallie
Ford Museum of Art’s 2008 Lavadour
retrospective, “The Properties of Paint,”
which toured throughout Oregon.
The acquisition of Flag 2 was part of
a larger project to conserve and reinstall
the State’s Capitol Art Collection in the
building’s renovated wings. An art selection
committee appointed by the Oregon
Legislature and Oregon Arts Commission
made recommendations for the
appraisal, conservation and reinstallation
of the 170 works in the original collection
and for new acquisitions to extend the
collection’s legacy.
Lavadour is the recipient of numerable
awards and accolades, including the
Eiteljorg Fellowship (2005), Award for
Visual Arts from the Flintridge Foundation
(2004) and Oregon Governor’s Arts
Award (1994). His work is in the collections
of the Portland Art Museum, Seattle
Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Boise
Art Museum, the Microsoft Collection
and other respected public and private
collections.
Art may be viewed during open building
hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Tutuilla
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and caring congregation.’
March 2011
March 4 - World Day of Prayer
March 6 - Worship/Communion 11,
children’s church 11:30
March 8 - International Women’s Day
March 9- Ash Wednesday Service 6
March 13 -Daylight Savings TIme Begins
March 13 - Sunday Lent Worship 11,
children’s church 11:30
March 20 - Sunday of Lent: Session 10,
Worship 11, children’s church 11:30
March 27 - Sunday of Lent :Session 10,
Worship 11, children’s church 11:30,
potluck to follow
34 Confederated Umatilla Journal
March 2011