354 results for: Visual Arts
Watercolor painting of a beach scene with tent by Harriet Foster Beecher, ca. 1870-1915
Born in Indiana, Harriet Foster Beecher (1853-1918) traveled to the West Coast to attend the San Francisco School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1880 and married Captain Herbert Foote Beecher. In 1881, Beecher opened what is thought to be Seattle’s first art studio. She painted Indigenous life in oils and watercolors, portraits of Seattle pioneers, and landscapes. Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.5
Date:Circa 1870-1915
Watercolor painting of Indigenous woman in a shelter on the beach, ca. 1870-1915
Born in Indiana, Harriet Foster Beecher (1853-1918) traveled to the West Coast to attend the San Francisco School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1880 and married Captain Herbert Foote Beecher. In 1881, Beecher opened what is thought to be Seattle’s first art studio. She painted Indigenous life in oils and watercolors, portraits of Seattle pioneers, and landscapes. Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.9
Date:Circa 1870-1915
Watercolor painting by Harriet Foster Beecher of Indigenous woman loading a canoe, 1900
Born in Indiana, Harriet Foster Beecher (1853-1918) traveled to the West Coast to attend the San Francisco School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1880 and married Captain Herbert Foote Beecher. In 1881, Beecher opened what is thought to be Seattle’s first art studio. She painted Indigenous life in oils and watercolors, portraits of Seattle pioneers, and landscapes. Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.10
Date:1900
Watercolor painting by Harriet Foster Beecher of two canoes and a sailboat near a beach, ca. 1880s-1990s
Born in Indiana, Harriet Foster Beecher (1853-1918) traveled to the West Coast to attend the San Francisco School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1880 and married Captain Herbert Foote Beecher. In 1881, Beecher opened what is thought to be Seattle’s first art studio. She painted Indigenous life in oils and watercolors, portraits of Seattle pioneers, and landscapes. Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.11
Date:Circa 1880-1900
Watercolor painting of a house near tide pools, 1894
The artist of this watercolor, Mary Hadley Foster Fletcher (1834-1922), was the mother of artist Harriet Foster Beecher and lived with her daughter and family in Port Townsend. Beecher was a talented and prolific artist, and Mary may have been inspired by her daughter to paint as well. MOHAI has a sigificant collection of Harriet Beecher's works.
ID Number:1953.303.12
Date:1894
Oil portrait of Ezra Meeker by Harriet Foster Beecher, 1914
Ezra Manning Meeker (1830-1928) was born in Iowa and traveled the Oregon Trail eventually settling in what would become Puyallup, Washington, in 1862. He grew hops for brewing beer and he was known as the "Hop King of the World," as his agricultural business made him a wealthy man. Unfortunately, an infestation of hop aphids in 1891 destroyed his crops…
ID Number:1953.303.13
Date:1914
Oil portrait of Ezra Meeker by Harriet Foster Beecher, 1914
Portrait of Ezra Meeker (1830-1928) in his old age. Meeker had been an early white settler of the area who traveled from Iowa and farmed hops in Puyallup. He later advocated for the preservation of the Oregon Trail, which he and his family had used to travel west, and is credited with spearheading its preservation. The artist, Harriet Foster Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.14
Date:1914
Watercolor painting of a beach scene with Native American canoe by Harriet Foster Beecher, ca. 1870-1915
Born in Indiana, Harriet Foster Beecher (1853-1918) traveled to the West Coast to attend the San Francisco School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1880 and married Captain Herbert Foote Beecher. In 1881, Beecher opened what is thought to be Seattle’s first art studio. She painted Indigenous life in oils and watercolors, portraits of Seattle pioneers, and landscapes. Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.15
Date:Circa 1870-1915
Japanese still-life painting, “Saika (Nihon no Kudamono)” by Shunkou Mochizuki, ca. 1951
Shunkou Mochizuki (1893-1979) was a “master” artist from Yamanashi prefecture in Japan, where there is a monument to him and also an art award given annually in his name. The title of the piece translates to"Japanese Fruits." Seattle's Mayor William Devlin traveled to Japan in 1951 to develop good relations, the first American mayor to visit that country post World…
ID Number:1953.316
Date:Circa 1951
Colorized photograph of Boeing B-1 mail plane on Lake Union, 1919
The B-1 was the first aircraft designed and assembled entirely by the Boeing Airplane Company for commercial rather than military purposes. The hull was made using laminated wood veneer, and the wings were framed with Washington-grown spruce. Eddie Hubbard is best known as the pilot who inaugurated international airmail service between Seattle, Washington to Victoria, British Columbia. Beginning in 1920,…
ID Number:1953.345.b.2
Date:1919