360 results for: Visual Arts
War protest art assemblage, guitar covered with paint and army toys, 2004
This guitar assemblage was made by local Seattle artist Scott MacIntire in 2004 in protest of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and subsequent Iraq War. The piece was created in conjunction with a 2004 fundraiser for the Hope Heart Institute, for which Art Institute of Seattle students and faculty embellished 30 electric guitars with various messages. The invasion and war…
ID Number:2009.7.1
Date:2004
Drawing of Luke May by Tom Renton, ca. 1930s
Luke May (1892-1965) came to Seattle in 1919. He was given the nickname "America's Sherlock Holmes" because he was an early scientific detective - one of the first to provide forensic and scientific methods as part of crime investigation. In 1922, he debuted his invention, the "Revelareoscope," a giant microscope that could project images of more than one object or…
ID Number:2009.36.3
Date:Circa 1930
Caricature on wood of Luke May, ca. 1950s
Luke May (1892-1965) came to Seattle in 1919. He was given the nickname "America's Sherlock Holmes" because he was an early scientific detective - one of the first to provide forensic and scientific methods as part of crime investigation. In 1922, he debuted his invention, the "Revelareoscope", a giant microscope that could project images of more than one object or…
ID Number:2009.36.5
Date:Circa 1950
Watercolor painting by Julius Ullman, "Puget Sound Shacks," 1934
Julius Ullman (1863-1952) was a Seattle artist known for watercolor paintings and murals. Ullman painted for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), then for the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) in 1933-1934 when he completed this work. It was installed at the US Public Health Services Hospital, or Pacific Marine Hospital, in Seattle.
ID Number:2009.40.2
Date:1934
Watercolor painting, "Scene of Capitol Hill from the Central District, With Powerlines," by Maria Frank Abrams, 1952
Maria Frank Abrams (1924-2013) was born Marika Franciska Frank in Hungary. As a Jew during WWII, she was deported to Auschwitz in 1944, and was eventually freed in April 1945. In 1948, Abrams came to the US to study art at the University of Washington (UW), and she married that same year. She received her BFA from UW in 1951,…
ID Number:2009.61.1
Date:1952
Handblown glass sculpture, part of "Seaform" project, by Dale Chihuly, 1985
Local celebrity artist Dale Chihuly designed and inscribed this piece. Born in Tacoma in 1941, Chihuly opened the Pilchuck Glass School near Seattle in 1971. He began his "Seaform" project in 1980 at Pilchuck. In 1990, he purchased the historic Pocock Building at Lake Union for use as a studio, hotshop, and archives, remaming it "The Boathouse."
ID Number:2009.96.1
Date:1985
Handblown glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly, 1987
Local celebrity artist Dale Chihuly designed and inscribed this piece. Born in Tacoma in 1941, Chihuly opened the Pilchuck Glass School near Seattle in 1971. He began his "Seaform" project in 1980 at Pilchuck. In 1990, he purchased the historic Pocock Building at Lake Union for use as a studio, hotshop, and archives, remaming it "The Boathouse."
ID Number:2009.96.2
Date:1987
Handblown glass sculpture, part of "Seaform" project, by Dale Chihuly, 1993
Local celebrity artist Dale Chihuly designed and inscribed this piece. Born in Tacoma in 1941, Chihuly opened the Pilchuck Glass School near Seattle in 1971. He began his "Seaform" project in 1980 at Pilchuck. In 1990, he purchased the historic Pocock Building at Lake Union for use as a studio, hotshop, and archives, remaming it "The Boathouse."
ID Number:2009.96.3
Date:1993
Framed artwork, "Venetian Drawing" by Dale Chihuly, 1990
Internationally-known glass artist, Dale Chihuly (b.1941) was born in Tacoma, Washington, and studied interior design at the University of Washington where he was first introduced to glass. After returning from working in the Venetian glass industry, he incorporated the team approach to blowing glass, and established the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State in 1971. A car accident in the…
ID Number:2009.96.4
Date:1990
Pen and ink drawing, "In the Project Studio," by Hans Bok, 1939
Hans Bok (1914-1964) was born in Missouri and came to Seattle in 1938 where he was one of the youngest artists to work for the Federal Arts Project in this city. While at work, Bok often took out a pen and drew artists working in the project studios in the Alaska Building. This image features Fay Chong in the lower…
ID Number:2010.21.1
Date:1939