Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism chronicles the life and times
of the highly regarded Portland painter and teacher, who taught for 36
years at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (formerly the Portland Art
Museum School) and served as interim dean during a critical period in
the college's history. Responding to the work of artists as diverse as
Wassily Kandinsky and Robert Motherwell, Widman forged a mature style
that combined an abstract vocabulary and sensibility with social and
political commentary.