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The last of a generation passes.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-AUG-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The last of a generation passes.(Arts & Literature)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

Nelson Sandgren died earlier this month at his home in Corvallis. He was 88.

Though his was hardly a household name outside art-world households, Sandgren was the last of a generation of Oregon painters who embraced painting for the sheer pleasure of painting. His watercolors, in which you can clearly trace the lineage of postimpressionist Paul Cezanne, were seemingly effortless celebrations of the Oregon landscape.

"Nelson painted straight from the heart, in the best tradition of Northwest artists of his generation," Eugene art collector Roger Saydack said. "He always painted as if he was seeing his subject for the first time, even if...

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