Artwork copyright Stu Levy. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Artwork copyright Stu Levy. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Sunset, San Juan Islands, 1994

Stu Levy
(American, born 1948)

Location: Cascade Middle School, Vancouver

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

'Sunset, San Juan Island' was taken by photographer Stu Levy looking out from Whidbey Island, in northern Puget Sound, to capture the "full sky grandeur of a Pacific sunset." Levy notes that he used a zone exposure technique developed by renowned photographer Ansel Adams. This technique gives the composition rich detail and a radiant sense of light.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Evergreen School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Portland, Oregon-based photographer Stu Levy creates images that explore and celebrate the natural landscape. Many of his images focus on the Columbia River Gorge region in Washington and Oregon, near his home. He notes, “The landscape, however, is only my stimulus or point of departure. I ask the question, ‘What else is the landscape,’ and it is the ‘what else’ that I try to photograph.”

Stu Levy became fascinated by photography as a child. He was a photographer for his high school and college yearbooks, and became a medical doctor. In 1979, he attended a workshop in Yosemite National Park taught by the famous photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Levy went on to teach at the Ansel Adams Workshops during the 1908s. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and has led photography workshops on the Oregon Coast since the 1980s.