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The early days of Oregon landscape artist: Go figure.

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Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

CORRECTION (ran 11/1/2005): A review on Page G3 of a show of paintings by the late artist David McCosh referred to his wife, Anne Kutka McCosh, as an "an artist herself and a mother." The McCoshes had no children.

Anyone who knows the work of David McCosh, who taught art at the University of Oregon from 1934 until 1972, thinks of him primarily as a painter of landscapes.

Particularly after a midcareer sabbatical in which he sequestered himself along the Washington coast, his work was also increasingly abstract. You could see rocks and trees in his paintings, but only if you looked hard enough.

His art was as much about painting as it was about representation, though it grew most definitely out of the Northwest's powerful landscape.

But there was, it turns out, another side to McCosh, who taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and worked for the Works Progress Administration before coming to Oregon.

The McCosh of those youthful days - he was in his late...

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