Artwork copyright Thomas Prochaska. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission.
Untitled, 1982
Thomas Prochaska
American (born 1945)
Location: Burley-Glenwood Elementary, Port Orchard
About the Artwork
Artist Thomas Prochaska captured an early summer scene in this painting. It depicts the pink house located across from his painting studio. The inviting composition features a red Doberman Pincher dog, who often kept watch from his neighbor's porch. Prochaska notes, "With the Doberman on the porch the friendly pink house became a menacing threat to my trip from studio to car or vice versa. I fear Doberman Pinschers. It's a friendly painting with a hidden fear."
This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with South Kitsap School District.
About the Artist
Portland, Oregon-based artist Thomas Prochaska creates paintings and prints as well as glass and papier mache sculptures.Born in Chicago, Prochaska earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in painting and art education from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1968. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking from the Pratt institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1970. He taught at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, from 1988 to 2012.
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