C. S. Price (American, 1874-1950), "The Dark River", 1938, oil on canvas, 27 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches, collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Gift of Marge Riley, 2008.021.001. Photo credit: Dale Peterson.
C. S. Price: A Portrait
June 14 – August 30, 2025
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is pleased to announce a new exhibition, C.S. Price: A Portrait, a major forty-plus-year retrospective exhibition for this important early Portland Modernist painter (1874–1950) who would emerge in the 1930s and ‘40s as a national figure and one of Oregon’s most important and influential artists. The exhibition opens on June 14 and continues through August 30, 2025, in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and is the first major Price exhibition in a quarter century.
Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke, born 1981), "Where Bears Dance", 2024, ed. 25, nine-color lithograph, printed by Judith Baumann, 26 x 22 inches, Crow’s Shadow Print Archive, CSP 23-101 (CSPI 2). Photo: Dale Peterson.
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial
July 12, 2025 – June 20, 2026
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial, a popular biennial exhibition hosted by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art since 2006, will feature a selection of contemporary prints created at this important printmaking atelier in northeastern Oregon during the past two years. Organized by Rebecca Dobkins, professor emerita of anthropology at Willamette University and curator of Indigenous art at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the exhibition opens July 12, 2025 and continues through June 20, 2026, in the Study Gallery and Print Study Center.
Sedrick Huckaby (American, born 1975), “She Wore Her Mother’s Quilt,” 2015, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches. Photo: Greg Staley, © Sedrick Huckaby.
Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art
September 27 – December 20, 2025
Maribeth Collins Lobby and Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
From September 27 to December 20, 2025, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art will present the traveling exhibition Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art, in the Maribeth Collins Lobby and Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery. Organized and toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, the exhibition celebrates the passion and commitment of an ordinary couple who spent more than thirty-five years as devoted collectors and connoisseurs, building a collection of vivid artworks that are both resonant and remarkably personal.