|
|
Article: A tour of dreams.(Arts & Literature)(Decorative art from Paris takes visitors to the Portland Art Museum into a strange and extraordinary world of fantasy)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 3, 2002
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 The Register Guard. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: BOB KEEFER The Register-Guard
IMAGINE THIS: You're turned loose for more than a week in the galleries and attics and storerooms of the largest private art museum in Paris.
Take your pick, the director says. Mull over all 150,000 items we've got locked away, from the 16th century Flemish tapestries to the 18th century clock of Marie Antoinette herself to the 20th century designers' stark designs. Find the best and most amazing and utterly outrageous stuff and pack it up and take it home to Oregon. We'll help. All you have to do is choose.
That's not a bad description of what Portland Art Museum curator Penelope Hunter-Stiebel has been up ...