William Givler

William Givler recorded the essence of the Northwest landscape through his paintings and prints for over 50 years. He studied at the Museum Art School (now the Pacific Northwest College of Art) in Portland, Oregon in 1926 and at the Art Student's League in New York in 1928. After Givler returned to Portland he became Dean of the Museum Art School from 1944 until 1973. Givler's work contains figurative images as well as portraits of the landscape. The artist was given a print retrospective at the Portland Art Museum in 1994, and has exhibited work at the Whitney Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; and the Seattle Art Museum, Washington. His work is in collections worldwide, including the Portland and Seattle Art Museums; the Boston Public Library, Massachusetts; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.