Artists' home in Cannon Beach still Gallery, just new and improved
The house was
built in the early 1900s. It had been vacant for a while when
they bought it in 1978, but it had retained its nickname, "The
Sketch Pad." It was pretty rustic inside and contained a
small wood stove as its only heat source. The garage had a mud
floor, and the kitchen was really just a corner of the small room
off the gallery. The new owners remodeled the home ten years ago
with the help of architect Tom Ayres, and it now contains an artbook-filled
den off the gallery, a chef's quality stainless steel gas stove
in the cozy separate kitchen, a formal dining room, upstairs library,
guest quarters, master suite and delightfully airy and colorful
studio with an ocean view. The mud-floored garage has been converted
to a cement-floor gallery work area, storage room and print shop.
The print shop contains a manually-operated one-color press for
making lithographic prints in a process that takes days to complete.
Who lives here? Harry and Hanne Greaver. Harry Greaver was born
in Los Angeles, but his family moved to Kansas when he was four
years old. He received both a bachelors degree and masters of
fine arts from the University of Kansas, and studied at the Los
Angeles County Art Institute. A college classmate of Danish origin
had a friend that he wanted Harry to meet. Her name was Hanne
(pronounced Hannah).
Hanne was born in Denmark and attended the School of Arts and
Crafts in Copenhagen, plus she studied in France for a year on
a French government scholarship. By 1955 she was on her way to
the United States and marriage to Harry.
The Greaver Gallery that is now their home in Cannon Beach contains
only their work, with an occasional representation from their
son, who is also an artist. Hanne works primarily in oils and
lithographs (printed in their own print shop) and enjoys creating
coastline scenes and interior still lifes. The family cat is often
a subject, but the new grandbaby may be taking over as favorite.
Harry works in watercolors and oils. He runs the print shop and
maintains color copies of all work available for sale, since not
enough room exists for hanging in the gallery.
Customers are Portlanders, Seattlites, summertime residents,
tourists, and friends. "Certain people we can expect to see
at certain times during the year," said Harry. "We see
Texans at Christmas and New Yorkers in the summer." LCB
The Greaver Gallery
Owners: Harry and Hanne Greaver
Address: 739 South Hemlock,
P. O. Box 120 Cannon Beach Oregon 97110
Telephone: 503/436-1185
E-mail: greaver@pacifier.com
Hours: 10a - 5p or...
"If we're here, we're open."
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