35 results for: Lumber and Logging
Oil painting, "Clearing Land," by Richard Bennett, 1940-1948
Richard Bennett (1899-1971) was a nationally known printmaker, illustrator, and painter. He was born in Ireland but grew up just outside Seattle in Washington State, and he also spent time in New York City and Ireland. A leading children's book author and illustrator, he received national recognition for his woodblock prints and engravings. He was close friends with several leading…
ID Number:2006.38.2
Date:1940-1948
Oil painting of loggers working on the hillside by Richard Bennett, 1940-1948
Richard Bennett (1899-1971) was a nationally known printmaker, illustrator, and painter. He was born in Ireland but grew up just outside Seattle in Washington State, and he also spent time in New York City and Ireland. A leading children's book author and illustrator, he received national recognition for his woodblock prints and engravings. He was close friends with several leading…
ID Number:2006.38.3
Date:1940-1948
Oil painting, "Loggers," by Richard Bennett, 1940-1948
Richard Bennett (1899-1971) was a nationally known printmaker, illustrator, and painter. He was born in Ireland but grew up just outside Seattle in Washington State, and he also spent time in New York City and Ireland. A leading children's book author and illustrator, he received national recognition for his woodblock prints and engravings. He was close friends with several leading…
ID Number:2006.38.4
Date:1940-1948
Oil painting of two loggers sawing a stump by Kenneth Callahan, ca. 1950
Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was born in Spokane and lived in Seattle, becoming a nationally known artist, most celebrated for his murals. Self-taught as a painter and sculptor, he is best known as a leading figure in the Northwest School along with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Guy Anderson. Much of his inspiration came from nature. In 1946, he and his…
ID Number:2006.38.5
Date:Circa 1950
Woodcut, "Paul Bunyan," by Richard Bennett, ca. 1932
Richard Bennett (1899-1971) was a nationally known printmaker, illustrator, and painter. He was born in Ireland but grew up just outside Seattle in Washington State, and he also spent time in New York City and Ireland. A leading children's book author and illustrator, he received national recognition for his woodblock prints and engravings. He was close friends with several leading…
ID Number:2006.38.260
Date:Circa 1932
Gouache painting of two hunters resting on a stump, untitled, by Richard Bennett, ca. 1930s
Richard Bennett (1899-1971) was a nationally known printmaker, illustrator, and painter. He was born in Ireland but grew up just outside Seattle in Washington State, and he also spent time in New York City and Ireland. A leading children's book author and illustrator, he received national recognition for his woodblock prints and engravings. He was close friends with several leading…
ID Number:2006.38.412
Date:Circa 1930
Timber industry support sign, "This Family Supported by Timber Dollars", ca. 2006
The political sign is a reproduction of those used in the 1990s on the Olympic Peninsula in support of the timber industry. The original stencil was used to make it.
ID Number:2006.Timbersign.Family
Date:Circa 2006
Watercolor study for the mural at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Eustace Ziegler, 1952
Eustace Paul Ziegler (1881 - 1969) was a noted Northwest artist known for his depictions of Alaskan and Pacific Northwest landscapes and industry. In 1924, Ziegler was commissioned to execute a number of large paintings for company offices in Seattle. He was a founder and the first president of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters. He was one of…
ID Number:2008.61.1
Date:1952
Gavel from the Hoo-Hoo House, a building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), ca. 1909-1959
The Hoo-Hoos were a fraternal organization of lumbermen. They had a house built on the grounds of the AYPE in 1909 and their mascot was a black cat. After the Exposition, the house was given over to the University of Washington where it was used as the Faculty Club until its replacement in 1959.
ID Number:2010.26.1
Date:Circa 1909-1959
Ship's barometer that belonged to Captain William Renton, ca. 1840
William Renton (1818-1891) was born in Nova Scotia and moved to Philadelphia as a young man. He first captained a ship in the 1840s and, over the years, purchased interests in ships that carried a variety of cargoes, including lumber, to various ports around the world. In 1850, Captain Renton and his family sailed on his first new brig the…
ID Number:2010.91.1
Date:Circa 1840