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Jack McLarty was born in 1919 in Seattle Washington. He attended the Museum Art School in Portland and in 1946 started teaching there. He served as Dean from 1958-1959 and continued to teach there until he retired in 1981. McLarty was one of the original founding artists of the Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum. McLarty was a both a print maker and a painter. His print work included silk screen, lithographs, etchings and wood cuts. His parents’ working-class background made him aware of social injustices and oppression, and some of his art was a means of commentary and resistance to those injustices. At the other end of the spectrum, in 1957 he illustrated a poetry book called “17 Love Poems” which consisted of nudes. In 1961 he and his wife Barbara, opened the Image Gallery, an important gallery in Portland for almost thirty years. This gallery showed Oregon artists as well as work from Mexico and Alaska. His work appeared in the exhibition “Recent Painting USA” at the Museum of Modern Art in 1962 and “Art of the Pacific Northwest”, organized by the Smithsonian in 1974. McLarty has work in the Portland Art Museum and the Seattle Art Museum, to name a few. He showed at the RSG until his death in 2011.
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