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Item
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Title
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unknown
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Creator
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John Olberdorf
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Artist ID
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171
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Description
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Oil painting on canvas of gray-green rock structure on bottom half, with cream-to-blue cloud shapes on upper half. Smaller rock structure in top center. A figure lounges on the rocks toward the left.
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Category of Media
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Painting/mixed media on canvas/board/etc
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Media
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oil on canvas
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Accession Number
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2007.003
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Location
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storage
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Date Acquired
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2004
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Donor or Seller
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Goldberg, Fred
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Donor ID
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168
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Condition Statement
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4/19/2022: Slight discoloration on cloud in center right. Chip in frame, bottom left corner. Hole in paper backing top center.
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Artist Bio
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A graduate of Oregon State University with a degree in Art and a minor in Anthropology, John Oberdorf (born 1952) began his career by making illustrations – in a style that echoed closely the visual vocabulary of Frank Frazetta – for publishers, such as Ace Books, and other magazines specialized in sci-fi stories in 1970s. His imagination, however, was not fulfilled by those enterprises, given the restrictive nature of this typology of visual narratives, in which images are subordinated to the particular story the artist was working on.
Soon enough, John Oberdorf noticed that his capacity of elaborating “worlds of the possible” – to quote the artist’s own words – reached a point of creative saturation. From that moment on, his career will take a decisive turn and move toward the elaboration of autonomous iconographies, exploring the ambiguity of natural shapes and the mystery of cultural traces in order to stimulate the viewer’s curiosity.
Source: https://willamette.edu/undergraduate/arth/oberdorf-archeospaces/index.html
