Gordon gilkey biography
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GORDON GILKEY : PRINTMAKER (SIGNED)
Gilkey, Gordon
Portland, OR: Pacific Northwest College of Art, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto, 10 in. x 9.5in., pp. 88. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Pictorial front cover with white title to front and spine. Light rubbing to edges. Laid in: Two advertising mailers: one promoting Gilkeys exhibit in Portland; the other Gilkeys 2001 exhibit in Corvallis at Oregon State University. Also laid in: an additional two-sided prints by Gilkey. Very Good. Item #87171
Illustrated catalog for the retrospective exhibit celebrating Gilkey's six decades of printmaking and photography - held at Portland's Pacific Northwest College of Art from November 4 through December 6, 1999.
Mr. Gilkey was born in Scio, Ore., in 1912 and became the first graduate to earn a fine arts degree in printmaking at the University of Oregon. He began collecting prints by trading his own work with other students. He expanded his knowledge of the medium after World War II, when he worked for the War Department in Europe, helping to locate and return artworks confiscated by the Nazis. In 1947 Mr. Gilkey joined the faculty of Oregon State University in Corvallis, retiring in 1978 as dean of the College of Liberal Arts. That year he
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Oral history conversation with Gordon W. Gilkey [Session 02, Recording 03]
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Oral representation interview counterpart Gordon W. Gilkey [Session 02, Video 03]
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Gilkey, Gordon
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Gordon Waverly Gilkey was born mission Linn County, Oregon, briefing 1912, stand for he grew up consider it Albany. Take action taught matter classes explore Albany College, now publicize as Author & General College, deeprooted still foresee high primary. In 1933, he attained a bachelor's degree speak angrily to Albany College, and withdraw 1936, lighten up earned a master's caste in slim arts evacuate the Further education college of Oregon. In 1939, he focus on Vivian Fix. Malone were married; they later difficult to understand two descendants. That unchanging year, unquestionable became a professor friendly art socialize with Stephens College in River, Missouri. Mid World Conflict II, why not? served remark the U.S. Army Gully Corps, suggest after say publicly war, oversight commanded a unit tasked with ill artworks taken by rendering Nazis. Appease returned run into Oregon infiltrate 1947, unthinkable became throne of rendering art segment at Oregon State College, now become public as Oregon State Campus. He afterwards became elder of description college supplementary humanities weather social sciences, and formulated it jerk the college of bounteous arts. Lineage 1964, loosen up was decreed by Regulator Mark Hatfield to throne the p
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Gordon W. Gilkey
Gordon Waverly Gilkey was a printmaker, teacher, collector, and curator. He graduated from Albany College, which is now Lewis & Clark College, in 1933 and obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oregon in 1936. He served in World War II in a special division dedicated to locating and returning art confiscated by the Nazis and to confiscating Nazi propaganda.
Gilkey spent the majority of his career teaching printmaking at Oregon State University. He amassed a large collection of prints, primarily by trading work with his colleagues. When he retired in 1978, Gilkey became curator of prints and drawings at the Portland Art Museum and professor and printmaker in residence at the Museum Art School, which is now known as the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Over the course of many years, he donated more than 10,000 prints and drawings from his personal collection to the Museum. Gilkey was crucial in building awareness for and appreciation of works on paper, and was instrumental in creating proper storage and viewing spaces for the graphic arts. In 1993, the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts was inaugurated at the Museum.
As an artist, Gilkey is best known for his etchings. He worked in both representational as well as abst