Jack McLarty

Jack McLarty’s family moved from Seattle to Portland in 1921 when he was a small child. He studied at the Portland Museum Art School from 1936 to 1939 then attended the American Artists School, New York. When he returned to Portland in 1946 he joined the faculty at the Museum Art School where he taught until 1981. From 1948 to 1950 he and fellow faculty member, Louis Bunce, ran a summer art school in Newport on the Oregon coast. In 1961,he and his wife Barbara, opened the Image Gallery in Portland, Oregon, one of the few galleries in the region at that time showing Northwest artists. The gallery closed in 1991.

McLarty worked in oil and acrylic and also was a prolific printmaker working in a variety of print techniques. His work was exhibited regionally and in California throughout his career and can be found in corporate, private, and museum collections throughout the Northwest.