Oaks Park Pentimento records the blurring of past and present, a moment when two generations of paintings collided to create remarkable new images. Over two days in 1982, Jim Lommasson photographed the strange and beautiful paintings that decorated the center column of the historic carousel at Oaks Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon. The original carousel images were an exotic assortment of Edwardian pastoral scenes?western explorers, Native Americans, Arabs, idealized womenpainted by anonymous German and Italian immigrants in the 1920s. In 1944, two itinerant painters, brothers from Vashon...