from "Finding Oregon's Best"  presenting Gallery 63...

McCullough Bridge Paintings
Oregon Artistic Arches

Oregon Coast Painting-Arches ©0440a McCullough Bridge: Yaquina Bay Bridge at sunset Panorama Painting built 1936	Coastal Bridge Painting ©1137 McCullough Bridge: Cape Creek Bridge built 1932	Coastal Bridge Painting ©1115 McCullough Bridge: Over Big Creek built 1931

Arched Bridge in Oregon Coast ©1121 McCullough Bridge over Rocky Creek; Otter Crest Loop 1927	Oregon Bridge Painting ©1128 McCullough Bridge over Dry Canyon Rowena Loop 1921	Painting -Oregon bridge with Arches ©1118a Caveman Bridge in Grants Pass - hanging flower baskets   1931
OR Bridge Painting in Myrtle Creek ©1116 McCullough Bridge over the South Umpqua River    built 1922	Coastal Bridge Painting    ©1119a McCullough Bridge over the Wilson River at Tillamook    built 1931	Isaac Lee Patterson Bridge Painting ©0486a McCullough Bridge over the Rogue River     built 1932
Painting: Arched Bridge at Reedsport ©1117 McCullough Bridge over the Umpqua River  1936	Painting : Eastern Oregon Dufur ©1139 McCullough Bridge on Boyd Loop Road-15 mile Creek built 1925	Coastal Bridge Painting ©1124 McCullough Bridge at Depot Bay built 1927

Painting: Arched Bridge on Coast ©1117 McCullough Bridge Yaquina Bay at Newport built 1936	©1140   1926 McCullough Bridge over Crooked River	©1123   1925 McCullough Bridge -Albany Willamette River	Coast Bridge Painting ©1122 McCullough Memorial Bridge at North Bend     1936

This gallery is a tribute to Conde McCullough, who was Oregon’s Bridge Engineer from 1919-1935.  He built Oregon's outstanding arched bridges…many on the coast…but a few scattered around the state.  Having photographed these bridges, we will never look at a bridge the same way again!!!
             Each image is a hand brushed acrylic painting stretched on canvas.  The entire 16 pictures  make a color matched unit with quite a punch!              McCullough's bridges always snuggle into the site and he labored to make them pleasing to the eye.  He pioneered the design and construction methods necessary to build cost effective concrete arch bridges.  Lucky are we that they have been maintained or refurbished since the 20's and 30's... The Golden Age of Engineering.
              McCullough is credited with helping design & build 600 bridges in his career.  Among them,  our favorites are listed below.

      Coastal Paintings:
      Yaquina Bay Bridge at Sunset and  Yaquina Bay at Newport
      McCullough Bridge at Cape Creek (a double high set of arches!)
      Bridge over Big Creek near Waldport
      Bridge over Rocky Creek, often called the Ben Jones Bridge
      McCullough Bridge over the Wilson River in Tillamook
      The Patterson Bridge over the Rogue River in Gold Beach
      Bridge over the Umpqua River at Reedsport
      McCullough Bridge at Depot Bay, the world's smallest harbor
      McCullough Memorial Bridge at North Bend in North Bend (Coos Bay)

      Bridge paintings from around the state of Oregon:
      Bridge over Dry Canyon on Rowena Loop road in the Columbia Gorge
      The Caveman Bridge in Grants Pass over the Rogue River
      Bridge over the South Umpqua River in Myrtle Creek;
      McCullough Bridge on Boyd Loop Road in Dufur (Eastern Oregon)
      Steel arch bridge over the Crooked River in Terrebonne
      The Willamette River Bridge in Albany in Albany
    
 

Every image in this gallery is an original painted canvas,
 hand brushed with artist acrylic,
hardened with multiple layers of protective coating
and machine stretched in gallery wrap style.

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Last Updated 2-11-2012