"Intersection in Amsterdam East"

(Set Back in Time)

Oil on Canvas

60"x72"

2022

A Section in a former Jewish neighborhood where a great number of residents were murdered by nazis in WWII.

Ursula LeGuin Writing a Poem at McCoy Creek

Oil on Linen

54"x64"

2022

"The Fall" 

Oil on Linen

48"x60"

2021

"The Fall" (Detail)

Oil on Linen

2021

"Lament (Siege of Caffa)"

Oil on Linen 

60"x81" inches

2021

"Harpy"

Oil on Linen

60"x81" inches

2021

"Minotaur"

Oil on Linen

60"x81" inches

Artist Collection

"Detail of Minotaur"

Oil on Linen

2021

Artist Collection 

"The Siege of Caffa (Plague Pit)"

Oil on Linen

60"x81"

2021

"Plague Ships Fleeing the Burning City of Caffa, Circa 1347"

Oil on Linen

59"x81"

2020

"Triggers"

Oil on Canvas

60"x72"

2020

"Passage (The Summer of 2020)"

Oil on Canvas

60"x72" 

2020

"Court"

Oil on Canvas

60"x72"

2020

"Stain"

Oil on Canvas

60"x72"

2020

"The Skipper's Wife"

Oil on Linen 

68"x92"

2020

Refused refuge during WWII. War memory.

"Linnaeus Straat, Amsterdam"

Oil on Canvas

60"x72"

2020

"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. 

(Amsterdam Series, continued)

"Tweede Ooster Park Straaat, Amsterdam"

Oil on Canvas

60x72

2019

(Amsterdam Series, continued)

"Dam Straat, Amsterdam" 

Oil on Linen

39x66 inches

2019

(Amsterdam Series, continued)

"Neighborhood near Weteringschans, Amsterdam"

Oil on Canvas

60x72

2019

(Amsterdam Series, continued)

"Weteringschans, Amsterdam"

Oil on Canvas

60x72

2018

(Amsterdam Series, continued)

"Kraaipan Straat, Amsterdam"

Oil on Canvas

60x72

2019

(Amsterdam Series, continued)

"Linnaeus Straat in the Rain, Amsterdam"

Oil on Canvas

60x72

2019

"The Fastest Woman in the World: Jessi Combs' Last Drive"

Oil on Linen

45"x81"

2020

Private  Collection

"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. 

"The Road to Schermerhorn, February 21, 1945"

Oil on Linen

68" x 92"

2018

"Incident at The Nieuwe Schermer Weg, February 1945"

Oil on Linen

64" x 90"

2018

A friendly fire incident outside my hometown, Haarlem, during WWII in the winter of 1945. ABritish fighter plane attacked a truck filled with starving children, and it was only by coincidence that my sister Gisela and myself were not in this vehicle.

"Incident at The Nieuwe Schermer Weg, February 1945"

(Detail)

Oil on Linen

64" x 90"

2018

"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. 

"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. 

"Dawn"

Oil on Linen

68" x 92"

2017

"The Gate"

Oil on Linen

68" x 92"

2017

"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.

"Core" 

(Anamorphic View)

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

2016

"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.

"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.

"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.

"The Bombardier"

Oil on Linen

57" x 81"

2003

Portland Art Museum Collection

"Abyss"

Oil on Linen

68" x 92"

2015

A meditation on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

"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.

"Iron Fist"

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

2012

"Rising Water"

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

2015

Large studio still life.

"Artemis"

Oil on Linen

81" x 57"

2015

"The Hanford Reach"

Oil on Linen

68" x 39"

2015

"Nightwatch"

Oil on Linen

81" x 59"

2015

"Flight"

Oil on Linen

81" x 142"

2009

Private Collection

"Alive"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2015

"The Cage"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2015

"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.

"Ruse (Razzia)"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2011

The artist's mother distracting nazi soldiers during a raid while the father was fleeing.

"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)

"The Storm"

Oil on Linen

67" x 96"

2013

"The Metamorphosis"

Oil on Linen

39" x 68"

2013

"The Light"

Oil on Linen

54" x 81"

2017

Commission, CMH-OHSU Knight Cancer Collaborative

Astoria, Oregon

"Blitzen River"

Oil on Linen

80" x 142"

2017

"Columbia River from Stonehenge"

Oil on Linen

26" x 52"

2018

Private Commission

“Jody”

Oil on Canvas 

60”x48”

2021

“Detail of Jody”

Oil on Canvas

60”x48”

2021

"Self Portrait with Corona Beard"

Oil on Canvas

60"x45" inches

2020

"Sarah’s Quarantine"

Oil on Linen

54"x64"

2020

"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

"Voice from the Grave"

Oil on Canvas

60x73

2019

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

"The Photographer"

Oil on Linen

68" x 39"

2017

A portrait of the breast cancer survivor, FH, German photographer and writer.

"Woman with Tiger"

Oil on Linen

60" x 68"

2015

Portrait of an aging socialite of the 60's.

"What's Left?"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2017

Aging socialite who recently lost her husband.

"Delores and MaryAlice"

Oil on Linen

57" x 81"

2010

My wife Delores, shortly before she died of cancer, posing with her granddaughter MaryAlice.

"Portrait of Delores"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2009

"Portrait of a Young Man"

Oil on Linen

33" x 29"

2017

Private Collection

"Meditation"

Oil on Linen

48" x 48"

2017

"Portrait of the artist Angelita Surman"

Oil on Linen

36x23

2019

"Portrait of Rabbi Joshua Stampfer"

Oil on Linen

64"x54"

2013

Neveh Shalom Synagogue Collection

"Portrait of Oregon Governor Tom McCall"

Oil on Linen

81"x63" 

1982

Oregon State Capitol Collection

"Portrait of Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber"

Oil on Linen

64"x54"

2008

Oregon State Capitol Collection

"Dor"

Oil on Linen

22x33"

2022

"Remembering Haarlem"

Oil on Canvas 

48"x48"

2022

"Fading"

Oil on Canvas

"48"x60"

Studio with Small Tulips Still Life

Oil on Linen

22"x32"

2022

Gone

Oil on Linen

39"x60"

2022

Study for Gone

Oil on Linen

22"x32"

2022

"Tomb" 

Oil on Linen, 20"x30"

2020

"The Ruin"

Oil on Canvas, 45"x60"

"Arizona Still Life"

Oil on Linen

48"x60"

2020

Memorial for those lost in the desert.

"Still Life with Peonies and Roses"

Oil on Linen, 36"x23"

2020

"Roses"

Oil on Canvas

60x48

2019

"Paradise"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2018

"The Spring of 2018"

Oil on Linen

84" x 66"

2018

Private Collection

"Letters from Holland"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2018

"Message"

Oil on Linen

54" x 64"

2018

"Chinese Urn with Red Roses"

Oil on Canvas 

48" x 48"

2018

"The Resurrection of Ric Young"

Oil on Linen

48" x 48"

2018

"Lost Voices"

Oil on Linen

39" x 62"

2013

Private Collection

Installation View

Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design

Sarasota, Florida

2011

Installation View

Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design

Sarasota, Florida

2011

Henk Pander in his studio photographed by Kayla Newell, 2015

"Memorial Still Life"

Oil on Linen

54 by 64 inches

2022

Details from "Memorial Still Life", 2022

Details from "Memorial Still Life", 2022