354 results for: Visual Arts
Watercolor painting, "Olympics from Seattle," by Edmond James Fitzgerald, 1938
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 loved the Pacific Northwest, and although he did fine portraits, he considered marine subjects…
ID Number:1995.80.2
Date:1938
Colored drawing of Cowichan Bay by Bertha Marie Boeing, September, 1952
Bertha Marie Potter Paschall (1891-1977) was married to William Boeing, founder of the Boeing Company. She exhibited her artistic talents in this colored drawing of Cowichan Bay located on the southeast edge of Vancouver Island. The work was a gift to her friend Virginia Denny (1905-1993), a member of the early Seattle settler family.
ID Number:1996.01.4
Date:1952
The della Robbia Bambino plaque from the original Children's Orthopedic Hospital on Queen Anne, ca. 1946
Children's Orthopedic Hospital was established in 1907 by Anna Herr Clise and 23 Seattle women wanting to address the health care crisis. This plaque was given to the hospital by a former Italian prisoner-of-war, Giuseppe Tomarchio of Genoa, who was interned as a gardener and handy man working on the hospital grounds in the 1940s. The Bambino was the emblem…
ID Number:1996.24.2
Date:Circa 1946
Three copper panels from the Mountain Room at the Rainier Beer Brewery, 1948
These decorative panels were part of a large fireplace hood in the Mountain Room at the Rainier Beer Brewery. The copper repoussé (a technique of hammering a copper sheet into a desired design) shows a leafy and flowering hop plant. Hops are used for brewing beer, and hop growing has been a significant agricultural crop in Washington since the 19th…
ID Number:1999.64.2.ONLINE
Date:1948
Color print, "Ferry Boat Café," by Glen Alps, 1949
The Ferry Boat Café was the famous horseshoe bar on Seattle’s Black Ball ferry, Kalakala. The artist, Glen Alps (1914-1996) was most well known as a printmaker, but he also painted and sculpted. He made several contributions to the field of printmaking as art, and is internationally known for his development of unique printing techniques. Alps came to Seattle from…
ID Number:2000.50.1
Date:1949
Oil painting, "Across from Broadway" by Doris Chase, 1951
Doris Totten Chase (1923-2008) was a leading Northwest artist for almost 50 years and a member of the Northwest School. A native of Seattle, she studied architecture at the University of Washington. She also studied oil painting with Russian émigré artist Jacob Elshin, with Mark Tobey, and with Greek artist Nickolas Damascus. Chase worked as a painter for fifteen years,…
ID Number:2000.54.1
Date:1951
Painted oxford shoes worn by Phil Webber, ca. 1992
Phil Webber, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer press photographer from 1956-2006, was known for wearing colorful shoes on assignments. The designs on these shoes show Webber's houseboat before and after renovating it.
ID Number:2000.99.1
Date:Circa 1992
Chess set made in 1946 by Seattle jeweler Anchor O. Jensen and depicting the Roman Invasion of Gaul
This intricate and delicately-made chess set features chess pieces that represent the Roman invasion of Gaul (modern-day France) by Julius Caesar in 58-52 BCE. The chess pieces--silver for the Gauls and gold for the Romans--were made by Anchor O. Jensen, uncle to Anchor HH Jensen who designed and built the championship hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV also in the MOHAI collection. Anchor…
ID Number:2000.104.1
Date:1946
Kingdome model, ca. 1970
The Kingdome was the featured venue in Seattle sports culture from 1976-2000. The Kingdome opened in 1976 when Seattle was awarded its first NFL football team, the Seahawks, as well as a baseball team, the Mariners. Beloved by some, hated by others, "The Dome" had a troubled history, including the infamous incident in 1994 when the waterlogged interior ceiling collapsed…
ID Number:2001.22.40
Date:Circa 1970
Painted portrait of Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline) by Alma Royer Lorraine, ca. 1904
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. The artist Alma Royer Lorraine (1858-1952) was born in Ohio and moved to Seattle in 1893. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the…
ID Number:2001.55.1
Date:Circa 1904