354 results for: Visual Arts
Doll, "Byzantium 900 to 1100 A.D." from a set of fashion dolls made by Ada Odenrider, 1985-1986
Ada Odenrider (1896-1993) was a famous doll artist in the Seattle-Tacoma area. She painstakingly hand-made many decorative dolls including this set featuring costumes dating from 1350 BCE Egypt to 1350 CE England. The bodies are hand-painted and hand-made porcelain and the garments feature a wide range of textiles. Odenrider helped found the Seattle Doll & Toy Collectors Club and her…
ID Number:1986.13.6
Date:1985-1986
Doll, "England 1300 A.D." from a set of fashion dolls made by Ada Odenrider, 1985-1986
Ada Odenrider (1896-1993) was a famous doll artist in the Seattle-Tacoma area. She painstakingly hand-made many decorative dolls including this set featuring costumes dating from 1350 BCE Egypt to 1350 CE England. The bodies are hand-painted and hand-made porcelain and the garments feature a wide range of textiles. Odenrider helped found the Seattle Doll & Toy Collectors Club and her…
ID Number:1986.13.7
Date:1985-1986
Doll, "England 1350 A.D." from a set of fashion dolls made by Ada Odenrider, 1985-1986
Ada Odenrider (1896-1993) was a famous doll artist in the Seattle-Tacoma area. She painstakingly hand-made many decorative dolls including this set featuring costumes dating from 1350 BCE Egypt to 1350 CE England. The bodies are hand-painted and hand-made porcelain and the garments feature a wide range of textiles. Odenrider helped found the Seattle Doll & Toy Collectors Club and her…
ID Number:1986.13.8
Date:1985-1986
Oil portrait of Horace W. McCurdy by Charles A. Veteto, ca. 1970
Horace W. McCurdy (1899-1989), born in Port Townsend, was a shipbuilder, bridge builder, civic leader, native Washingtonian, and prolific maritime collector. Both the Lake Washington Floating Bridge and the Hood Canal Bridge were built by his firm, Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging. He was instrumental in the establishment and early development of MOHAI and he donated over 500 maritime-related artifacts…
ID Number:1990.19
Date:Circa 1970
Portrait of Dr. Kathryn Harrison at age 85 by Herbert P. Muehlenbeck, ca. 1944
Dr. Kathryn Harrison was one of the first physicians specializing in obstetrics in Seattle. She was arrested twice in 1912 at the age of 50. The first arrest was for the murder of a young woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, who probably died from complications from an abortion. The second arrest was part of a national sting operation against doctors…
ID Number:1990.25
Date:Circa 1944
Portrait of Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline) by Alma Zeltner, ca. 1930
Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline), also known in Lushootseed as Kikisoblu, Kick-is-om-lo, or Wewick, was the eldest daughter of Chief Si'ahl (Chief Seattle). She was born around 1820 and lived until she was in her mid-seventies. This portrait was painted several decades after her death, possibly from an Edward Curtis photograph as reference.
ID Number:1991.6
Date:Circa 1930
Oil painting of the Duthie Shipyards by Amos Grant, 1919
J. F. Duthie & Company was a small shipyard in Seattle, Washington, established in 1911, that built cargo ships during during World War I . Most of the vessels built were "West boats," or steel-hulled cargo ships, used by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) on the west coast of the US. Not much is known about the artist Amos…
ID Number:1992.10
Date:1919
Charcoal drawing on cardboard of Mark Dempsey, 1954
Actor and performer Mark Dempsey (1936-1994) was born in Los Angeles and came to Seattle in 1951 with his mother Bessie Hall Dempsey. He attended Queen Anne High School and the University of Washington's School of Drama. Mark was about 18 at the time this portrait was drawn, and the artist signature is R.B. Smith. In the late 1960s, Mark…
ID Number:1993.41.50
Date:1954
Portrait painting on board of Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline), ca. 1890s
This unsigned portrait of Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline) was allegedly painted from life when she was 106 years old, although Kikisoblu is thought to have lived to be around 86 years old.
ID Number:1993.85
Date:Circa 1890
Watercolor painting, "Duwamish River," by Edmond James Fitzgerald, 1935
Edmond James Fitzgerald (1912-1989) was born in Seattle and was a marine, landscape and portrait painter as well as combat artist during World War II. He was greatly influenced by fellow local artist Eustace Ziegler and they had neighboring studios on Pier 9 in Seattle. Fitzgerald’s long and successful career took him to New York and Ohio, but he always…
ID Number:1995.80.1
Date:1935