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Below the Spires of Three Fingered Jack, Knight Library, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)

Creator Display
  • Harry Arthur Clough (artist, 1891-1977)
  • Jim de Broeckert
  • Ross McClure
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • 1934
Description
  • This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest.
View
  • detail of wood carving, west end, Paulson Reading Room, Knight Library
View Date
  • 2011
Temporal
  • 1930-1939
MODS Note
  • Pictured is a detail from "Below the spires of Three-Fingered Jack," the right panel of a tryptich. Depicted is a Civilian Conservation Corps crew constructing a lookout tower, with an old "crows nest" lookout atop a tree beside it. In the mist railway surveyors and their pack animals are at work. The work is carved from 1 in. Oregon cedar. Its creators were Art Cough (designer and lead carver), Ross McClure (first assistant), and Jim de Broekart (apprentice).
  • Art Clough was born in Wisconsin in September 1891 and died in Lane County, Oregon, in 1977. He was a wood carver who taught art at Eugene Vocational School, Eugene, Oregon, in the 1930s and 1940s.
Subject
Work Type
Style / Period
Location
Street Address
  • Paulson Reading Room, Knight Library
GPS Latitude
  • 44.0424707
GPS Longitude
  • -123.0781509
Material
  • cedar
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon
Identifier
  • pna_23207
Provenance
  • Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Is Part Of
  • Knight Library, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
Institution
Submission Date
  • 04/27/2015
Modified
  • 08/12/2022
Collections

APA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (25 Apr 2024). Below the Spires of Three Fingered Jack, Knight Library, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67jb028

MLA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Below the Spires of Three Fingered Jack, Knight Library, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 25 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67jb028

Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Below the Spires of Three Fingered Jack, Knight Library, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-25. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67jb028

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 McClure, Ross http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/McClureRoss
2 Broeckert, Jim de http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/BroeckertJimde
3 Clough, Art http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/CloughArt
4 Teague, Edward H., 1952- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80157506
5 Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
6 Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
7 views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
8 carvings (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047203
9 woodworking http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054083
10 sculpture (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047090
11 woodcarving http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054089
12 Modernist http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300021474
13 Rustic (European style) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300018229
14 Eugene >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5725846/
15 Lane County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5735869/
16 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
17 United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
18 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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