SUMMER 2016 Dear Friends, Summer is in full swing at Maryhill, and the museum is bustling inside and out. Galleries are awash with visitors enjoying our new exhibitions and outside, they are sizing up the views, exploring the sculpture garden, and soaking up all Maryhill has to offer. Maryhill’s incredible setting is the “secret sauce” that makes it a one- of-a-kind destination. And with that in mind, our summer programming takes full advantage of our beautiful outdoor spaces. On July 30 we’ll once again host Portland Actors Ensemble, who will delight audiences with a performance of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. Bring your blanket and picnic basket, as we celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th birthday! We are excited to bring you two new events this summer. This is one of my favorite paintings in the collection and I wanted to share it with you. The With the help of Rose City handsome way the dog is rendered tells me that the artist has a keen sense of what a dog is physically—look at its paws chest and rear. It is clear to me that the artist has beautifully Astronomers we will host the first captured his mood. The dog is presumably looking back to the person in the room somewhat Maryhill Star Party on July 30. Details hopefully for a piece of the cooking flat bread. The slight bit of drool, catching the light at the on this magical, family-friendly evening corner of his mouth, seals the expression. Like my dog at home, he is begging. You can see of star gazing and an overnight this painting this year in the exhibition, Maryhill Favorites: Animal Kingdom. Take a moment campout on the museum’s grounds to explore it this summer. Edwin Douglas (Scottish, 1848–1914), A Yellow Labrador, 1900, oil can be found on page 7. on canvas; Collection of Maryhill Museum of Art. In August, we will host the Pacific It’s not too soon to think about the project to bring Maryhill’s exterior Northwest Plein Air event, during the fall either, so mark your calendar and back to its original condition. Every week of August 22-28, when 40 artists plan to join us September 10 for our gift will bring us one step closer to will paint outdoors in the Columbia annual Benefit Auction—this year finishing this important work. River Gorge. We invite you to meet with a theme of A Royal Occasion. the artists and view their “fresh” Have a wonderful summer! paintings at a reception on Friday, On page 5 you can read about the August 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. Their work museum’s exterior stucco restoration Colleen Schafroth will remain on view and available for underway this summer. I hope you’ll Executive Director purchase through Sunday, August 28. consider a donation to this worthwhile Save the Date SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 4 P.M. TO 8 P.M. A Royal Occasion: Maryhill Benefit Auction Meet the Queen and Sam Hill, bid on some of the region’s most celebrated wines, and enjoy a fabulous array of hors d’oeuvres with select wines and brews. 2 MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART Now on View THROUGH July 4 SAM HILL AND THE THE BIG PAINTING SHOW COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY Works seldom shown because of Black and white prints showing their unusual size, including such highway construction and early scenic favorites as Paxton’s The Red Fan, views of the Columbia River Gorge. The Wedding Feast by Gillis van AMERICAN ART POTTERY Tilborch, Henk Pander’s Columbia FROM THE FRED L. MITCHELL River at Stonehenge and Solitude, COLLECTION by Lord Frederic Leighton. Ceramics from makers such as Roseville, Rookwood and Weller, THROUGH November 15 established in the American Midwest GEORGE E. MUEHLECK, JR. during the height of the American INTERNATIONAL CHESS Art Pottery movement. SETS GALLERY A new installation of the museum’s MARYHILL FAVORITES: unique chess sets from around the ANIMAL KINGDOM world, and chess-related works of art. Animal-centric works, including pastoral paintings and equestrian India (Province of Rajasthan), Figural Chess scenes, along with exotic birds, Set, late 18th century, painted ivory; Museum purchase, Collection of Maryhill Museum sheep and man’s best friend, of Art. the domesticated canine. Opening this Summer July 16 – November 15 KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLOR: saw an opportunity and began AMERICAN INDIAN TRADE producing brightly-colored blankets BLANKETS with bold geometric designs for sale Since their introduction in the late to the Native populace. These trade 18th century, wool trade blankets blankets soon became an important have assumed an important role in part of Native culture and for general Native culture. A Kaleidoscope of household use. Color: American Indian Trade Blankets Although Indian trade blankets presents 20 pre-1925 blankets from are synonymous with 20th-century well-known historic manufacturers reservation style, manufacturers were such as Buell Manufacturing Company, largely dependent on sales to the J. Capps & Sons, Racine Woolen non-Native population. Instead of Mills, Oregon City Woolen Mills and transferring specific Native designs Walter S. Bowman (American, 1865–1938), Men Pendleton Woolen Mills. The featured onto blankets, they created patterns Wearing Blankets at Pendleton Woolen Mills, blankets are from private collections that appealed to mainstream romantic 1910; Walter S. Bowman Photograph Collection, and offer a rare opportunity to see stereotypes of Indian imagery. PH004-0011, Special Collections & University some of the most colorful items Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene ever created by American Trade blanket aficionados favor industrial designers. blankets made prior to 1942—the July 15 – August 19 & September 1 – 25 Trade blankets made by outsiders year mills began manufacturing for STUDIO PLAY the war effort. The majority of vintage first appeared in North America in the We provide the materials and you robes still in circulation come from 18th century, when the Hudson’s Bay create the masterpiece inspired by non-Native families, as Indian people Company imported English “point” works of art at Maryhill—from the took great pride in their blankets and blankets. From 1780 to 1890, these Rodin Gallery to American Indian generally used them until they were blankets were a staple of the fur trade, works, Théâtre de la Mode and beyond. worn out. Others were valued as burial especially in Canada and the northern Afterwards, hang your work of art for attire and the practice of wrapping tier states. the world to see! We will even provide departed relatives in a new Pendleton During the same period, Navajo a museum label for your artwork, blanket is still common in Navajo and weavers also made wool wearing- which will remain on view the M.J. Zuni communities. blankets, but stopped this activity Murdock Charitable Trust Education shortly before 1900 to produce rugs A Kaleidoscope of Color is supported Center. Use #maryhillstudio to let for trading posts and eastern markets. by a gift from the J & S Bishop Fund the world know your work is on Enterprising American woolen mills of the Oregon Community Foundation. view at Maryhill. MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART 3 Museum News ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IN MAY At its annual Members’ Meeting in May, the museum’s membership elected several candidates to the Board of Trustees including two new trustees and six trustees to another term. If you want to read about all the museum’s trustees, go to the museum’s website at maryhillmuseum.org under Learn/About Maryhill Museum of Art /Board of Trustees. NEW TRUSTEES Maryhill is thrilled to welcome two new members to its Board of Trustees. Kathleen Marquart of Portland, Oregon grew up in Wrangell, Alaska, where she spent summers on the beaches in her family’s fish camp, or on seiners looking for jumpers. She is a member of the Tlingit-Haida Central Council. As a Certified Physician’s Assistant in Indian country, Kathleen worked on reservations in South Dakota, NEW CURATOR Arizona, New Mexico, and Oregon, and in Urban OF EDUCATION Indian medical clinics in Seattle, Portland, and Louise “Lou” Palermo joined Oklahoma City. She has served on numerous the staff of Maryhill this spring committees and advisory groups at the local, as Curator of Education. Lou state and national levels, and is currently comes to the museum with Vice Chairperson and the Portland Area an impressive and diverse Representative of the National Indian background in museum Women’s Health Resource Center. education, having worked at Mark Masterson of Tigard, Oregon was such institutions as Arkansas Art introduced to Maryhill Museum of Art as Center in Little Rock, Great Lakes a teenager while living in the Tri-Cities and Science Center in Cleveland, traveling with his Dad on frequent business trips Ohio, the Museum of Fine Arts to Portland. Mark is a “foodie” at heart, having in Houston, and for the J. Paul a long career in the food and wine industry, Getty Center in Los Angeles. and as a personal chef. He currently works at She has worked extensively with UTB Enterprises / McDonald’s as Marketing volunteers, crafted stimulating Supervisor for Portland area restaurants. Mark programs for adults, families and has two teenagers; a daughter at OSU and children, and collaborated with a son at Tigard High. teachers and other community groups. We are thrilled to have RETURNING TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS her on board and look forward The following trustees are returning for their to the programs she will create second term: Matthew Johnston, Ned Kice, for visitors to Maryhill! Bob Moco, Michael Oros, Dean Ozuna, and Juris Sarins. And for their third term, Anne Avery and Ken Weeks.