Description
“Helmi’s Bird”
Joe Reno
Monotype
18 1/2″ x 21″
Framed
Joe Reno is a well-known Ballard artist who has never stopped loving the Northwest. Aside from a military duty in Germany and a time spent among the famous and talented as a student at the Art Student League in New York, Reno has never wanted to do his art anywhere but here.
“He’s in love with the state of Washington,” said architect and artist Milan Heger, a friend of Reno’s. “He’s a true Northwest Master.”
His home, a Sunset Hill house built in 1911 surrounded by an enormous laurel hedge, has been his residence since 1950, when Reno was seven years-old.
Today, it houses Reno’s studio and an impressive collections of art, books and paints he has accumulated over nearly six decades.
