7 results for: Elshin, Jacob
Portrait of Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline) by Jacob Elshin, 1940-1950
Jacob Elshin (1892 – 1976) was born in Russia but fled after the Bolsheviks took power in 1917 and settled in Seattle in 1923. He worked for the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and his large-scale murals were prominently displayed in many local public buildings. Elshin also taught art at the Edison Technical School in Seattle. This portrait…
ID Number:1950.16
Date:Circa 1940-1950
Portrait, "Makah Indian Neah Bay" by Jeanie Walter Walkinshaw, 1937
Controversial oil portrait by Jeanie Walter Walkinshaw (1885-1976). The subject in the painting, possibly fellow artist Jacob Elshin, is dressed in ceremonial dance robe and headdress. If this is indeed Elshin, it is an example of redface and the appropriation of Native culture and dress by white settlers. This was one common example of discrimination and marginalization faced by Native…
ID Number:1951.50
Date:1937
Painting of Mt. Index, by Eustace Ziegler, ca. 1934, with unfinished painting of Mt. McKinley and packhorses on verso
By the beginning of Great Depression, Eustace Ziegler (1881-1969) was an established and successful artist. In 1933, the US government launched an ambitious program of cultural aid including direct aid for artist hard hit by the depression. Ziegler had long advocated government funding for the arts and, in a show of support for the program, he donated this painting to…
ID Number:1966.3848.1
Date:1934
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
Painting, "Detail for West Seattle High School Mural," by Jacob Elshin, 1937
Jacob Elshin (1892 – 1976) was born in Russia in 1892, and moved to Seattle in 1923. When the federal government launched the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 to assist unemployed artists, Elshin was among the first to sign up. Over the course of his career, Elshin became well known for his paintings in oil and watercolor. His…
ID Number:2002.9.1
Date:1937
Glass and steel sculpture by Doris Chase, 1997
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:2004.64
Date:1997
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