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April 26 2021
Other items include New Avenues for Youth mural, The Laurelhurst Club, Ansel Adams exhibit and Lois Greenfield.
Adams photos on display
The Portland Art Museum has reopened and will present the exhibit, Ansel Adams in Our Time, to members starting Wednesday, April 28, and to the general public May 5.
The exhibit includes the famed photographer s work as well as others to put Adams photos in context.
The show contains 80 images by artists working both before and after Adams.
It was curated by Karen Haas of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She drew from her museum s Lane Collection of more than 6,000 American modernist photographs, works on paper and paintings, including 450 Adams photos collected by Saundra and William Lane.
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The amusing history of an 1891 painting of 42 cats
If you have not yet seen Carl Kahler’s
Commissioned in 1891 by millionaire and philanthropist Kate Birdsall Johnson, the work features her 42 Persian and Angora cats. A mix of kittens and cats stand poised on Rococo furniture while others are sprawled against a lavish velvet curtain.
Painted by Austrian artist Carl Kahler, the work took three years to complete. According to the Portland Art Museum, this is supposedly because he spent months studying them in preparatory sketches and paintings.
The oil painting, which is 6 by 8.5 feet in size, and weighs roughly 227 pounds, depicts the cats to be larger-than-life. And yes, each and every one of the 42 cats, meticulously painted, belonged to Birdssall Johnson. Despite the Portland Art Museum claiming it to be a falsity, many sources such as