About the artist:

Manuel Izquierdo (1928–2009) is a sculptor and woodcut artist. Izquierdo was born in Madrid, Spain, moving to the United States in 1942. His work has been shown throughout the northwestern United States, as well as in a collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. EDUCATION Museum Art School, BFA, Portland, OR 1951 Studied lithography, etching, silkscreen under William Givler and Louis Bunce 1947-1951 Apprentice to sculptor Frederick Littman, Portland, OR 1945-1950 Studied woodcutting and engraving with Lloyd Reynolds, Portland, OR 1947 AWARDS Governor’s Award for the Arts, State of Oregon 1991 First National Bank of Oregon, Portland, OR, Award 1975 Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Award 1958, 1963 Norman Davis Purchase Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1961 Oregon Chapter, AIA, Fine Arts Award 1961 Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Cabell Award, Oregon Ceramic Studio, Portland, OR 1953 Urban League, Equal Opportunity Award, Portland, OR ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS “Shepherds,” Manuel Izquierdo Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 1999 The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1986,1992,1996,1998 Lynn McAllister Gallery, Seattle, WA 1987, 1988 “Drawing Retrospective,” Salem Art Association, Salem, OR 1988 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 1985 Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, OR 1975, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 Oranges/Sardines, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Portland State University, Portland, OR 1981 Catlin Gabel School, Portland, OR 1981 Governor’s Ceremonial Office, State Capitol, Salem, OR 1981 Rogue Art Gallery, Medford, OR 1979 Corvallis Art Association, Corvallis, OR 1975, 1978 Wentz Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 1976 Statewide Services, University of Oregon Museum of Art 1969 Southwest Community College, Coos Bay, OR 1968 Westhills Fellowship, Portland, OR 1968 Ten Year Retrospective, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1967 Ceye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1962 Image Gallery, Portland, OR 196 New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR 1960 Artist Gallery, Seattle, WA 1958 College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 1957 Reed College, Portland, OR 1955, 1956, 1958 Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1952, 1958 GROUP EXHIBITIONS “Big Blocks,” North View Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR 2002 The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2002 “The Visual Chronicles of Portland (A Timeline Tour),” North View Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR 2001 “Early Works by Oregon Artists, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2000 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue, WA 1998 “Sculpture Exposition,” Clackamas Community College, Molalla, OR 1998 “Prints and Drawings,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1998 “Notes From All Over: Messages From The Interior,” Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR 1997 “Manuel Izquierdo/ John R. Stahl, ”Cannon Beach Art Association, Cannon Beach, OR 1996 Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR 1995 “Carved and Incised: Contempory Block Prints,” Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA 1995 “Mountain High X,” Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, OR 1995 “Jet Dreams: Art of the Fifties in the Northwest,” Tacoma Art Museum, WA 1995 “Portland Collects,” Portland Art Museum, OR 1993 “Then and Now: Work by Artists Represented in the Permanent Collection,” Salem Art Association, Salem, OR 1993 “Visiting Artists Series,” Art Center, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR 1993 “Northwest Art: A Narrative/Figurative View,” Valley Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA 1993 Maveety Gallery, Portland, OR 1992 Heathman Hotel, Portland, OR 1992 “Oregon Biennial,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1991 Northwest Print Council Print Portfolio, traveling exhibition 1989 “Forty Oregon Printmakers,” Oregon State Arts Commission (catalogue) 1988 “Northwest Artists,” Lynn McAllister Gallery, Seattle, WA 1986 Pacific Northwest College of Art 75th Anniversary Portfolio, Wentz Gallery, Portland, OR 1985 Mt. Hood Community College, Art Mall Gallery, Gresham, OR 1980, 1983 Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA 1983 Northwest Prints Inaugural Exhibition of the Northwest Print Council (traveled one year) 1982 Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR 1982 Wesleyan International Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA 1980 “Regional Photography and Printmaking,” traveling exhibition, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 1979-1980 Print Exhibition, Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR 1979 Yellowstone Print Club Invitational Show, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT 1978 Northwest Sculptors, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 1975 Sculpture Invitational, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 1975 Sculpture for Public Places, Portland Art Museum, OR 1974 Art of the Pacific Northwest, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C 1973-1974 Summer Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, OR 1971 Artists Equity Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Portland, OR 1968 Westhills Fellowship, Portland, OR 1968 Artists West of the Mississippi, Denver Art Museum, CO 1966 Sculpture Invitational, Erb Memorial Student Union, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 1965-1967 Pacific Coast Invitational, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA 1963 Ceye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1962 Image Gallery, Portland, OR 1962 New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR 1960 Artists of Oregon, Ruthmore Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1959 Oregon Centennial Paintings and Sculpture, Portland, OR 1959 National Ceramic Sculptural Invitational, Oregon Ceramic Studio, Portland, OR 1958 COMMISSIONS Catholic Center, Portland, OR Department of Corrections, State of Oregon, Salem, OR Esco Corporation, Portland, OR Far West Federal Bank, Portland, OR Far West Federal Bank, Tacoma, WA Harsch Investment Corp., Portland, OR Metropolitan Arts Commission, Portland, OR Oregon Centennial Forestry Pavilion, A.I.A. Pavilion, Oregon Centennial, 1959 NIKE, Portland, OR Northwest District Association, Portland, OR One Main Place Building Lobby, Portland, OR Oregon Dental Services Plaza, Portland, OR Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR Portland Development Commission, Portland, OR Pettygrove Square, City of Portland, OR Schnitzer Family Center, Temple Beth Israel, Portland, OR St. Mary’s Catholic High School, Portland, OR St. Philip Neri Church, Portland, OR Summit View Fountain, Portland, OR Tacoma Art Muserum, Tacoma, WA U.S. National Bank, Baker, OR U.S. National Bank, Salem, OR Urban League, Equal Opportunity Award, Portland, OR Vancouver Library, Vancouver, WA Wallace Park, Portland, OR Winkler Development, Portland, OR COLLECTIONS Cannon Beach Arts Association, Canon Beach, OR Catholic Center, Portland, OR City of Portland, Metropolitan Arts Commission, OR City of Portland, Parks Department, OR Civic Auditorium, Portland, OR Claremont Resort Hotel, Oakland, CA Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR Department of Corrections, State of Oregon Erb Memorial Union, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Esco Corporation, Portland, OR Far West Federal Bank. Portland, OR Far West Federal Bank, Tacoma, WA Metropolitan Arts Commission, Portland, OR Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA First National Bank of Oregon, Portland, OR Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR Harsch Investment Corp., Portland, OR Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Mentor Graphics, Portland, OR Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA Northwest District Association, Portland, OR One Main Place, Portland, OR Oregon Dental Services, Portland, OR Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, OR Oregon State University, Valley Library, Corvallis, OR Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR Pihas, Schmidt & Westerdahl, Portland, OR Philadelphia Art Museum, PA Portland Art Museum, OR Portland Community College, Portland, OR Portland Development Commission, Portland, OR Portland State University, OR Reed College, Portland, OR Rochester Art Museum, NY Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA Safeco Corporation, Seattle, WA Santa Barbara Art Museum, CA Schnitzer Family Center, Temple Beth Israel, Portland, OR Seattle Art Museum, WA St. Mary’s Catholic High School, Portland OR St. Philip Neri church, Portland, OR Stoel, Rives, Boley, Jones & Grey, Portland, OR Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Tonkon, Torp, Galen, Marmaduke & Booth, Portland, OR University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR University of Portland, OR U.S. National Bank, Baker, OR U.S. National Bank, Portland, OR Vancouver Library, Vancouver, WA West One Bank, Portland, OR Winkler Development, Portland, OR RELATED EXPERIENCE Professor of Art, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 1951-1997 Visiting Professor, University of California at Davis 1982 Instructor, Portland State University, Portland, OR 1974 Instructor, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR 1956-1960 Artist-in-Residence, Reed College, Portland, OR 1954-1956 Member of The Metropolitan Arts Commission 1987-88 PUBLICATIONS Haught, Nancy, “Quiet Places,” The Oregonian, September, 2000 Row, D.K., “Izquierdo on Izquierdo,” The Oregonian, September 1998 Allan, Lois, Contemporary Printmaking in the Northwest, Craftsman House, Sydney, Australia 1997 Rennie, Doug, “City Beckons: Stray Awhile,” The Oregonian, March 1997 “Feature: Cover Art,” Oregon Symphony, January 1997 Ellison, Victoria, “3-D Calligraphy from a Master Sculptor,” The Oregonian, November 1997 “Laura Russo Gallery,” Our Town, November 1996 Kangas, Matthew, “Vigorous Elegance,” Manuel Izquierdo: Recent Sculpture, 1996 Friedman, Ann, “Carving a Niche,” The Bellingham Herald, August 1995 Johns, Barbara, Jet Dreams, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, exhibition catalogue, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA 1995 Love, Glen A., The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction, Oregon State University Press 1993 Weinstein, Joel, “Izquierdo Transforms Woodcuts into Fantasy,” The Oregonian, February 1993 Gragg, Randy, “Galleries,” The Oregonian, December 1992 Gragg, Randy, “Laura Russo Gallery,” The Oregonian, December 1992 Barry Debby, “Manuel Izquierdo, Point of Reference,” NW Gallery Art Magazine, 1990 Chieger, Bob, “Public Art Northwest.” Northwest Examiner, July 1987 Johnson, Barry, “Critic’s Choice,” The Oregonian, 1986 Johnson, Barry, “Critic’s Choice: A&E,” The Oregonian, 1986 Guenther, Bruce, The Fountain Gallery of Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Portland, OR 1986 “It Just Parachuted In,” The Oregonian, April 1987 Guenther, Bruce, 50 Northwest Artist’s Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA 1983 Burress, Charles, “A Touch of Northwest Class at The Claremont,” The Oregonian, July 1983