History and Patronage

Art About Agriculture was established in 1983 as the first annual arts competition with an agricultural theme. It recognizes professional and emerging Pacific Northwest artists, creates a growing, dynamic, permanent collection of fine art based on, stimulated by, and portraying agriculture, and presents the collection and tour exhibit to rural and urban audiences.

Now in its twenty-second year, the permanent collection is comprised of 175 contemporary artworks by Northwest artists in drawing; mixed media; acrylic, oil, and watercolor painting; prints; photography; sculpture; and textiles.

Permanent collection displays:

Oregon:

  • Benton County Commissioners Offices, Corvallis
  • Bureau of Labor and Industry, Eugene, Medford, and Salem
  • Capital Press, Salem
  • Gilliam County Courthouse, Condon
  • Offices of U. S. Representative Darlene Hooley, Salem
  • Oregon State University, Corvallis
  • OSU Central Oregon, Bend
  • OSU Food Innovation Center Experiment Station, Portland
  • OSU Linn County Extension, Albany
  • OSU Marion County Extension, Salem
  • OSU Portland Center, Portland
  • Oregon Department of Agriculture, Salem
  • The Oregon Garden, Silverton
  • Wheat Marketing Center, Portland

Washington State:

  • Columbia River Gorge Commission, White Salmon

Accessions to the Art About Agriculture Permanent Collection are made possible in partnership with the OSU Foundation and the E. R. Jackman Board of Directors. The College of Agricultural Sciences is grateful for support from the deans of OSU Extension Service, College of Agricultural Sciences, and College of Liberal Arts; Betty Brose; Gene and Cande Buccola; Capital Press; Larry and Sherry Kaseberg; the Lamb Foundation; Land O'Lakes Foundation; the Roy D. Nielsen family; Beth and Edward Ray, the Carey and Glen S. Strome Agricultural Art Memorial; Ron Theis; and Tim and Karen White. All gifts made to the OSU Foundation-Art About Agriculture qualify as contributions under current state and federal tax codes, and may be made at any time.

Artists Represented in the Art About Agriculture Permanent Collection

  • Jim Adams
  • Tom Allen
  • Mark Allison
  • Marge Anderson
  • Nancy Arko
  • Philip V. Augustin
  • Cleve Bachelder
  • Mark Barnes
  • Claire Barr-Wilson
  • Rick Bartow
  • Harry Bennett
  • Patty Bentley
  • Rich Bergeman
  • Mary Berry
  • Frank Biggs
  • Jan Boles
  • Barbara Bond Anderson
  • Clinton Brown
  • David Buchanan
  • Doug Campbell
  • Larry Campbell
  • Douglas Campbell-Smith
  • Claudia Cave
  • Carol Chapel
  • Berkeley Chappell
  • Marti Cheek
  • Elaine Ellmaker Clark
  • Gordon K. Clark
  • Mark Clarke
  • Bets Cole
  • Ian Colpitts
  • Andrew M. Cook
  • Gloria Cornelius
  • Jonnel Covault
  • Sally Cleveland
  • Chris Cummings
  • James Donnell
  • Tallmadge Doyle
  • Carol Steichen Dumond
  • Lucia Durand
  • Jeana Edelman
  • Mark Elliot
  • Jan Erickson
  • Betty Feves
  • Gary Fields
  • Judy Findley
  • Kenneth Fisher
  • Doris Frishknecht Opager
  • Chrissy Froese
  • Paul Gentry
  • JoAnn Gilles
  • Terry Gloeckler
  • Humberto Gonzalez
  • Julie Goodrich
  • Margaret Graham
  • Allen Greene
  • Nancy Hagood
  • Andrew Haley
  • Sally Haley
  • Priscilla Hanson
  • Karen Hendricks
  • Miles Histand
  • Kathryn Honey
  • Wendy Huhn
  • Michael Ireland
  • Christopher Irving
  • Manuel Izquierdo
  • Demetrios Jameson
  • Donna & Don Jepsen-Minyard
  • Marg Johansen
  • Kristie Johnson
  • Marge Johnson
  • VacieAnna Johnson
  • Jennifer Joyce
  • Nancy Kem
  • Edwin Koch
  • Carol J. Krakauer
  • Tom Kramer
  • Jan Kunz
  • Michael Lawrence
  • Jean Lea
  • Charles M. Leach
  • Susan Lewis
  • Doreen Lindstedt
  • Dyanne Locati
  • Peter Marbach
  • Bill Marshall
  • Gan E. Martin
  • Ken McCormack
  • Marjorie McDonald
  • Nancy McMorris
  • Allan Mevis
  • Clarice Miller
  • Connie Mueller
  • Molly Murphy
  • Lyn & Steven Nance Sasser
  • Erik Scott Nelson
  • Loren Nelson
  • Heidi Olsher NFS
  • Alfred Owczarzak
  • Muriel Pallay
  • Todd Parker
  • Mary Anne Pauletto
  • Nancy Peterfreund
  • Connie Petty
  • Susan Pittman
  • Diana Pomeroy
  • Margaret Prentice
  • Robert S. Purser
  • Sharon Rajnus
  • Marie "Lid" Rhynard
  • Carol Riley
  • Richard Robertson
  • John Rock
  • Francis Ross
  • Marnie Ross
  • Laura Ross-Paul
  • Victor Saltveit
  • Judith Sander
  • Erik Sandgren
  • Nelson Sandgren
  • J. Elizabeth Santone
  • Jason Saunders
  • Lauren Sauvage
  • Susan Seubert
  • Jennifer Smith
  • Kim E. Smith
  • Aki Sogabe
  • Cy Stadsvold
  • Janice Staver
  • Marley Stone
  • Susan Trueblood Stuart
  • Janet Sullivan
  • Gary Tepfer
  • Donna B. Trent
  • Phyllis Trowbridge
  • Charles H. True
  • Yolanda Valdes-Rementeria
  • Maurice A. Van
  • Janna Beth Vaughn
  • Elise Wagner
  • April Waters
  • Harold R. Walkup
  • Hank Weber
  • Robert Weller
  • Don Whitaker
  • Diane Widler Wenzel
  • Lynn Wiley
  • Gary Wishart
  • Carol Yates
  • Renée Zangara
  • Mark Zentner
  • Sandra S. Zimmer
  • Milford Zornes

Patronage and Partnership

Accessions to the Art About Agriculture Permanent Collection are made possible in partnership with the OSU Foundation and the E. R. Jackman Board of Directors. The College of Agricultural Sciences is grateful for support from the deans of OSU Extension Service, College of Agricultural Sciences, and College of Liberal Arts; Betty Brose; Gene and Cande Buccola; Capital Press; Larry and Sherry Kaseberg; the Lamb Foundation; the Roy D. Nielsen family; Beth and Edward Ray, the Carey and Glen S. Strome Agricultural Art Memorial; and Ron Theis. All gifts made to the OSU Foundation-Art About Agriculture qualify as contributions under current state and federal tax codes, and may be made at any time.

About the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences

The College of Agricultural Sciences is one of eleven colleges at Oregon State University. The University itself is a Land Grant, Sea Grant, Space Grant, and Sun Grant institution. College of Agricultural Sciences departments: Agricultural Education and General Agriculture, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Animal Sciences, Crop and Soil Science, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Fisheries and Wildlife, Food Science and Technology, Horticulture, and Rangeland Resources, and program areas of Bioresources Research and Pre-Veterinary Medicine. Shared departments are in the College of Engineering: Bioengineering, and the College of Science: Botany and Plant Pathology, Chemistry, Microbiology, and Statistics. For additional information about the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, please visit the College's World Wide Web site at http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/.