Pacific Northwest Oregon Modernist Oil Canvas Abstract Landscape Painting by Portland Oregon Artist, Richard Arthur Muller "Driftline" 1981

Description

A large modernist abstract oil & magna on linen landscape painting by Portland Oregon artist, Richard Arthur Muller, 1928-1961, titled … more A large modernist abstract oil & magna on linen landscape painting by Portland Oregon artist, Richard Arthur Muller, 1928-1961, titled "Driftline", 1981.
This large modernist abstract painting is by celebrated artist Richard A. Muller and epitomizes Muller's landscapes with multi-colored layers of impasto textured levels, the painting is signed & dated lower left "R. A. Muller 81", the painting is also titled to the stretcher verso, "Driftline oil & magna on linen", and signed & dated once more.
The painting was exhibited & sold at the Fountain Gallery, Portland in 1982, the Fountain Gallery was created in 1961 by champion of the arts, Arlene Schnitzer along with her mother and a close friend. The Fountain Gallery exhibited noteworthy Northwest artists such as Louis DeMott Bunce, Carl Morris, Robert Colescott, Kenneth Callahan to name just a few.
The painting is housed in the original frame, also created by the artist, condition is excellent and ready to grace your wall.

Biography
Richard A. Muller was born in Morristown New Jersey in 1928 and died in Portland Oregon in 1991. Richard Muller joined the Army after graduating from Syracuse University. When he continued his art education at the University of Oregon in 1954, he shared an apartment with Harry Widman. His paintings are landscape oriented with many levels of meaning, all relating to nature. With a cool, muted palette Muller captured the "essence of wildness." He joined the art faculty at Portland State University in 1959 to replace Frederick Heidel who was on sabbatical leave. With thanks to the authors of "Oregon Painters: The First Hundred Years (1859-1959)", Ginny Allen & Jody Klevit. less