Ledger Artist Frank Salcido
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Now mostly seen in museums or private collections, ledger art involves often somewhat primitive drawings by members of the Plains Tribes such as the Sioux and the Cheyenne. Traditionally, they generally depict everyday life around them in the 1800's. Frank Salcido is a modern ledger artist right here in Portland who has his own modern take on the art form.
First Broadcast: 2008
Producer: KC Cowan
Appeared in episode: American Roots Music Festival, Ledger Artist Frank Salcido, Sculptor Shelley Smith Curtiss
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- The Woman with the Veil
- by KC Cowan | 11/17/2009
- It isn’t often that the Portland Art Museum brings in an exhibit that consists entirely of one painting, but a masterpiece by Raphael is now on display and worth the trip to see. I finally got there last week and am so glad I did. “The Woman with the Veil” is so stunning, so richly painted [...]
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