Coast Rhythms
Carl Hall, Coast Rhythms, 1949, oil on canvas, Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund, © artist or other rights holder, 49.22
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- Title
Coast Rhythms
- Artist
- Date
1949
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
23 1/2 in x 29 7/8 in; frame: 31 5/16 in x 37 9/16 in x 1 1/4 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature; date: Carl Hall May '49, brush, lower left
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art; Northwest Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund
- Accession Number
49.22
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
- Place Made
Created in and depicts: Oregon
In 1942, a young infantryman and artist visited Oregon and fell in love with the countryside. After the war ended, he returned to Oregon and settled permanently in Salem. Carl Hall began teaching art at Willamette University in Salem in 1947. He had received his training in classical painting techniques in Detroit and transferred those skills to the Willamette Valley and Oregon coast. Though his work became known nationwide, Hall chose to remain in Salem teaching and also working as a part-time poet and art critic. His oil and watercolor paintings of Oregon's scenic beauty combine realism, elements of abstraction, and a somber palette of greens, browns, and ochres in works that capture the features and light, as well as the mood of the Oregon landscape.
