Artwork copyright Jim Colbert. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Artwork copyright Jim Colbert. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Quarried Marble, 1988

Jim Colbert
(American, born 1946, died 2007)

Location: Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Quarried Marble is a painting by artist Jim Colbert. It features bold, geometric areas of color and shadow in an almost abstract composition. He based the image on the Yule quarry in Marble, Colorado. He notes that marble extracted from this quarry "went on to build the Lincoln Memorial and various other monuments and buildings in Washington D.C. and around the country." Geologists discovered the quarry in 1873. The Colorado-Yule Marble Company established the Yule quarry in 1905, which operated until 1941. The quarry reopened in 1990. It is still in production today.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Grays Harbor College.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Realist painter Jim Colbert (1946-2007) intricately and expressively captured the landscape of the American West and explored the connection between man and nature. A native of Washington State, Colbert earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washingon in Seattle. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado in 1980, and was a longtime resident of Boulder.