360 results for: Visual Arts
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
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