Louis Bunce, a major painter and printmaker beginning in the 1930s, is considered a legend in Oregon modernism. Known for variations on Surrealism in the 1930s and 1940s, nature-based adaptations of... Read full biography
Louis Bunce, a major painter and printmaker beginning in the 1930s, is considered a legend in Oregon modernism. Known for variations on Surrealism in the 1930s and 1940s, nature-based adaptations of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s, and geometric compositions related to Minimalism in... Read full biography
Louis Bunce, a major painter and printmaker beginning in the 1930s, is considered a legend in Oregon modernism. Known for variations on Surrealism in the 1930s and 1940s, nature-based adaptations of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s, and geometric compositions related to Minimalism in the 1970s, he created a body of work that resonates with international modernism. He influenced many artists in the Pacific Northwest, including those who studied with him at the Museum Art School (now... Read full biography
Louis Bunce, a major painter and printmaker beginning in the 1930s, is considered a legend in Oregon modernism. Known for variations on Surrealism in the 1930s and 1940s, nature-based adaptations of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s, and geometric compositions related to Minimalism in the 1970s, he created a body of work that resonates with international modernism. He influenced many artists in the Pacific Northwest, including those who studied with him at the Museum Art School (now Pacific Northwest College of Art), where he taught from 1946 to 1972. Louis Demott Bunce was born in Lander, Wyoming, in 1907 and moved with his family to Portland in 1920. He studied at the Museum Art School in 1925-1926, where he became friends... Read full biography
Louis Bunce, a major painter and printmaker beginning in the 1930s, is considered a legend in Oregon modernism. Known for variations on Surrealism in the 1930s and 1940s, nature-based adaptations of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s, and geometric compositions related to Minimalism in the 1970s, he created a body of work that resonates with international modernism. He influenced many artists in the Pacific Northwest, including those who studied with him at the Museum Art School (now Pacific Northwest College of Art), where he taught from 1946 to 1972. Louis Demott Bunce was born in Lander, Wyoming, in 1907 and moved with his family to Portland in 1920. He studied at the Museum Art School in 1925-1926, where he became friends with fellow student William Givler. Both enrolled at the Art Students League in New York; Bunce studied there from 1927 to... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (22)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Oregon Painters The First 100 Years:1859-1959
1999
Allen, Ginny & Jody Klevit
251 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Fifty Northwest Artists (photos of artists by Marsha Burns)
1983
Guenther, Bruce
118 pages (color)
Northwest Traditions (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Cowles, Charles (others)
105 pages (color)
Santa Fe Selects Contemporary Artists of the American West (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Santa Fe Festival of the Arts
48 pages (color)
Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Wechsler, Jeffrey
116 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s
1974
Baigell, Mathew
214 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Art of the Pacific Northwest From the 1930s to the Present (Exhibition catalog)
1974
National Collection/Fine Arts
141 pages
Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974
Plagens, Peter
200 pages (color)
Northwest Art Today Adventures in Art (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Rogers, Millard
106 pages
The World of Abstract Art
1957
American Abstract Artists
167 pages (color)
American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1950
Metropolitan Museum of Art
60 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index