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Pine Valley

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Description: "The Valley is located next to Oregon's high desert. Most of the pines for which it was named have been cut, but it is still an oasis. In the morning and evening there are quail--'sweet-whistling quail' as Anne Porter called them--that never walk near the house in lines of family"--From page [7].
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2005]
Call number: 653230
Creator: Adams, Robert (1937-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 1590051009; 9781590051009
Provenance: Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, August 2020.
Dimensions: 31 cm
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Ojai Valley Inn, Ojai

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Called the Ojai Valley Country Club when Neff designed it in 1924.

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The question of hope : photographs in Western Oregon

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"The question of hope is especially urgent because of environmental threats. One such peril, deforestation, is the subject of the first half of this book, where pictures of it suggest a war zone. The subject of the second half of the book, light on the sea, might initially seem disconnected from the first, but in combination they have about them what Samuel Johnson once called "the stability of truth," in this case a recognizable balance of harsh facts and dateless, mysterious consolation. Robert Adams has studied both elements--our failed stewardship and the promise implied by beauty--across much of the American West. He has over the years also photographed them near where he lives on the Oregon coast, and it is this local caring that gives The Question of Hope much of its intensity."--Jacket.

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George Forby letter to Elizabeth Dowd Forby

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In this letter to his wife, Forby describes his journey to California via Cuba and Panama. He witnessed two burials at sea during his voyage, and called Panama "the most singular place I ever saw." Of San Francisco, he writes "you never saw such a set of long faces and idle people as there are here," owing to the decline in mining. Nevertheless, Forby is determined to stay and "try to face it through."

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Portrait of Jennie

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An artist meets a schoolgirl in Central Park named Jennie. There is a mystical quality about Jennie, and she intrigues him with the way she chats on about things that happened years ago. When he sketches Jennie, his work shows more expression and emotion than anything else he has ever done-- but before he knows it, Jennie is gone.

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George S. Patton, Jr. on Galahad

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A view of a young George Smith Patton, Junior mounted on a dark horse named Galahad. Patton, also called Georgie, is wearing knee-length shorts, a white, long-sleeved shirt with vertical stripes, and a wide-brimmed hat. The horse is standing on a dirt road, with trees, bushes, and palms in the background and a manicured lawn in the foreground.

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Holly Roberts : works 1989 to 1999

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"Roberts' odyssey with the painted photograph began in the mid-1970s. She found that painting over a slick photographic surface, she was able to manipulate the paint -- scrape it, scratch it, even wipe it away -- with the luxury of never losing the underlying image. A modern pioneer of the method, Roberts ups the ante with an understanding of human dynamics just short of psychic and a technique that appears unstudied, but is in fact, quietly accomplished. The combination results in a deeply resonant imagemaking, both haunting and profound"--Publisher's description.

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