Clayton Sumner Price, a celebrated painter of Oregon, is the focus of Roger Saydack's book, which has taken most of his adult life to write. The book, titled C.S. Price: A Portrait, showcases Price's evolution from an Iowa homesteader to a renowned artist, contextualizing his work within the late 19th and early 20th-century Western art movements. It features 15 chapters detailing significant events and influences in Price's life while incorporating his philosophy and approach to Modernism. The book is illustrated and published by Willamette University's Hallie Ford Museum of Art.
"The book is a portrait of a man whose philosophy of life was formed in the last days of the American frontier, who moved to a modern city to have the freedom he needed to paint, and who discovered in Modernism how to give his art the meaning he sought."
The book functions on three levels: it efficiently tells a story about an unlikely figure who became a celebrated painter, it dives deeply into Price's artistry, and finally, it contextualizes everything within the frame of late 19th- and early 20th-century developments in Western visual art.
Saydack's research and storytelling is featured in a terrific 312-page book about Price, published by Willamette University's Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem and distributed by Oregon State University Press.
Throughout the 15 chapters, we get glimpses of how various events, groups, and institutions fit into the world in which Price went from an Iowa homesteader to one of Oregon's most famous painters.
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