Charred, Scarred, and Stark

 

Gordon Waverly Gilkey

  1912 - 2000 (biography)

c. 1960  

metal relief 

17 3/4 x 11 5/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

pencil titled 

 

cream J Whatman wove 

published 

artist 

18554 

SOLD

Following his return to the United States, Gilkey became a professor and later dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University. Upon his retirement in 1977, he donated his expansive collection of prints and drawings to the Portland Museum of Art. He became the museum’s curator of Prints and Drawings and Printmaker in Residence at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland. In 1993, he and his wife founded the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for the Graphic Arts at the Portland Museum of Art. Gilkey died in 2000, but remains well-remembered by his former colleagues and students.