Paintings - Henk Pander

"Eruption of Mount Saint Helen's from Cable Street"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

1981

City of Portland Collection

"Raadhuis Straat, Amsterdam"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

1981

Private Collection

"Millimeter Wave Radio Telescope, Kitt Peak Observatory"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

1979

Private Collection

"Saturnian Still Life"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

1982

Private Collection

"Portrait of Oregon Governor Tom McCall"

Oil on Linen

81"x63"

1982

Oregon State Capitol Collection

"View of Portland with Plane"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

1982

Private Collection

"Still Life with Lens"

Oil on Linen

44" x 54"

1976

Private Collection

"View of Portland with Multnomah Athletic Club"

Oil on Linen

6' x 20'

1987

Multnomah Athletic Club Collection

"Still Life with Crystal"

Oil on Linen

63" x 72"

1980

Private Collection

"Iris and Iris"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

1979

Private Collection

"Gold Stone (Deep Space Network, Jet Propulsion Laboratories"

Oil on Linen

81" x 105"

1989

"Galileo Test, Jet Propulsion Laboratories"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

1992

NASA Art Collection

Portland Center for the Performing Arts Mural, South Wall

Mixed Media

20' x 15'

1989

Portland Center for the Performing Arts Mural

Mixed Media

20' x 15'

1989

"Portrait of Jacob and Arnold Pander"

Oil on Linen

81" x 62"

1991

"The Floor"

Oil on Linen

81" x 109"

1992

An incident at my neighbor's house during WWII where refugees were hiding under the floor while nazis searched the home.

"The Kitchen"

Oil on Linen

81" x 109"

1994

Private Collection

An incident where my father was close to being arrested in the kitchen of a neighboring hospital where monks would provide us with food.

"Northern Lights"

Oil on Linen

67" x 81"

1998

"Fuselage"

Oil on Linen

67" x 81"

1998

"Song of the Wild V"

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

2001

Private Collection

"Wreck of the New Carissa"

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

1999

Portland Art Museum Collection

"Shadows"

Oil on Linen

81" x 142"

2002

Private Collection

The ruins of the World Trade Center, from the roof of a high rise apartment building in November 2001.

"The Bombardier"

Oil on Linen

57" x 81"

2003

Portland Art Museum Collection

"Rescue"

Oil on Linen

59" x 81"

2005

Portland Fire Bureau attempting to revive a heart attack victim.

"The Road"

Oil on Linen

80"x142"

2005

Department of Safety Standards and Training Collection, Salem Oregon (DPSST)

"Something Happened on the Old Road"

Oil on Linen

72" x 96"

2008

Los Angeles County Fire Department Collection

A rescue operation by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

"Enola Gay Hangar, Wendover, Utah"

Oil on Linen

60" x 96"

2007

Private Collection

The remnants of the ruin of the hangar for the Enola Gay bomber which bombed Hiroshima. It is located outside of Wendover, Utah.

"Portrait of Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber"

Oil on Linen

64"x54"

2008

Oregon State Capitol Collection

"Portrait of Delores"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2009

"Lover's Letters 1932-1937"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2000

Private Collection

"History and Topography"

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

2007

Portland Art Museum Collection, Recent Acquisition

This painting was inspired by studies I did at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for Women, outside of Berlin.

"Flight"

Oil on Linen

81" x 142"

2009

Private Collection

"Monument to Delores"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2012

"The Sea"

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

2013

An exploration on the VOC ship, the Prins Willem, which sank off the coast of Madagascar in 1668, was replicated and exhibited in Japan, after which it returned to the Netherlands and succumbed to a fire.

"The Light"

Oil on Linen

54" x 81"

2017

Commission, CMH-OHSU Knight Cancer Collaborative

Astoria, Oregon

"Lost Voices"

Oil on Linen

39" x 62"

2013

Private Collection

"Portrait of Rabbi Joshua Stampfer"

Oil on Linen

64"x54"

2013

Neveh Shalom Synagogue Collection

"Core"

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

2016

The core of the B reactor at Hanford Nuclear Reservation. It is at this reactor that the very first plutonium for the first atomic weapons were produced; the beginning of the Nuclear Age.

"Don't Look"

Oil on Linen

68" x 92"

2015

July 17th, 2014 a Malaysian airline flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shut down by the Russians. None of the many Dutch people who were on the plane survived.

"Blitzen River"

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

2017

"Native Soil"

Oil on Linen

68" x 92"

2017

The skull of a Umatilla Native American found in a riverbed which was apparently shot by an arrow. After it left my studio to be painted, it was ceremoniously buried.

"Columbia River from Stonehenge"

Oil on Linen

26" x 52"

2018

Private Commission

"Vanport Vision"

Oil on Linen

68" x 92"

2018

Vanport was a WWII city outside Portland, OR, built by Kaiser for shipyard workers, shipyard building, and liberty ships for the war effort. After the war in 1948 there was a dike break and in the span of 30 minutes the city was flooded. The people, who were primarily minorities, had to flee for their lives.

"Paradise"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2018

"Rising Water"

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

2015

Large studio still life.

"Portrait of Joanne"

Oil on Linen

64x54

2019

Portrait of Joanne Hardesty, the first African American city councilwoman of Portland, Oregon.

Portland Art Museum Collection

“Jody”

Oil on Canvas

60”x48”

2021

"Voice from the Grave"

Oil on Canvas

60x73

2019

Self portrait, reading correspondence between my parents in the 30's.

"Remembering Haarlem"

Oil on Canvas

48"x48"

2022

"Message"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2018

"The Resurrection of Ric Young"

Oil on Linen

48" x 48"

2018

"Retief Straat, Amsterdam"

Oil on Canvas

60x72 inches

2019

Retief Straat was located in a pre-WWII Jewish neighborhood. A large percentage of the apartments were left abandoned after the innocents were murdered by nazis. I tried to set this series of paintings back in time, and give these neighborhoods a sense of abandonment.