Albert Patecky is the most famous of the family achieving international attention for his “non-objective” abstract expressionistic paintings in the early 1950’s. However his wife Blanche and his son Kenneth were also artists. In the early 1960’s the family built and shared a studio in Tigard a suburb community of Portland Oregon. Blanche Patecky is most noted for her watercolor floral studies and Kenneth Patecky achieved regional recognition for his figurative style of carved concrete sculpture. For two decades the family co-existed exhibiting together as a family of artists. In 1983 the Oregon Historical Society Museum honored the Patecky family’s contribution to the development of culture in the Pacific Northwest with a retrospective show of 166 art works by Albert, Blanche and Kenneth assembled by the Museum’s art historian Jack Cleaver. The exhibit was titled “The Artists Patecky”