265 results for: Visual Arts
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Provisional Junior League members with "Machine from Mordor" by Harold Balazs, Seattle, April 1970
For more than a century, Junior League members have confronted society’s most pressing issues and tackled its toughest problems, leaving an unrivaled legacy of reform. Since its inception in 1923, members of the Junior League of Seattle (JLS) have worked to improve our community through mission-driven projects and hands-on work with many community partners. To join the JLS, women first…
ID Number:2000.107.101.36.01
Date:1970
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Two Seattle Junior League members with art works, Seattle, April 1971
For more than a century, Junior League members have confronted society’s most pressing issues and tackled its toughest problems, leaving an unrivaled legacy of reform. Since its inception in 1923, members of the Junior League of Seattle (JLS) have worked to improve our community through mission-driven projects and hands-on work with many community partners.Over the years, the Northwest Art Project…
ID Number:2000.107.101.36.04
Date:1971
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Jacob Lawrence at home, Seattle, November 13, 1974
Painter Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was known for his portrayal of the African-American experience, using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism," though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. Lawrence also taught, and spent 15 years as a professor…
ID Number:2000.107.111.10.01
Date:1974
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Jacob Lawrence at home, Seattle, April 4, 1980
Painter Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was known for his portrayal of the African-American experience, using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism," though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. Lawrence also taught, and spent 15 years as a professor…
ID Number:2000.107.111.10.02
Date:1980
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Jacob Lawrence with his painting, Seattle, December 15, 1974
Painter Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was known for his portrayal of the African-American experience, using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism," though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. Lawrence also taught, and spent 15 years as a professor…
ID Number:2000.107.111.10.03
Date:1974
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Alden Mason, May 19, 1987
Alden Mason (1919-2013) was a Seattle-based painter and art professor. Born in Everett, he graduated from the University of Washington (UW) with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1947 and was hired as an instructor in 1949. Mason’s artistic career took off in the 1970s, with exhibitions in Seattle museums and galleries as well as shows across western North…
ID Number:2000.107.119.26.01
Date:1987
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Artists posing with their political ad campaign on Metro bus, Seattle, October 23, 1984
In this image, members of Working Artists for a Democratic Alternative (WADA) stand near “Take the Mask Off,” their campaign to support the Mondale/Ferraro presidential campaign, featuring a graphic of President Reagan removing a smiley-face mask to reveal a monster. The ad campaign was carried by more than two dozen Metro Transit buses in King County and was available as…
ID Number:2000.107.124.31.02
Date:1984
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Marvin Oliver sculpting a mask, Seattle, July 20, 1976
Marvin Oliver (1946-2019) was a sculptor and printmaker who influenced the development and recognition of American Indian contemporary fine art. Born in Shelton, Washington, Oliver attended graduate school at the University of Washington (UW) and started teaching at the school in 1974. Oliver's work was steeped in his Quinault and Isleta-Pueblo heritage, but spanned styles and media--from blown-glass Northwest Coast-style…
ID Number:2000.107.135.22.01
Date:1976
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Mary Ann Peters painting mural in Port of Seattle building, February 14, 1993
Mary Ann Peters is a Seattle artist whose work has been exhibited extensively across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. She has received the Stranger Genius Award in Visual Art, the Pollock Krasner Fellowship, and the Civita Institute Fellowship. Peters also received the Neddy Artist Award for visual artists in Washington State in 2000. Peters is a founder of the Center…
ID Number:2000.107.140.14.01
Date:1993
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Lawney Reyes with cedar bald eagle sculpture, Seattle, September 26, 1977
Lawney L. Reyes (1931-2022), Sin-Aikst (Colville Confederated Tribe) artist, architect, and author, overcame a childhood of poverty and discrimination to become an award-winning sculptor and a historian of local Indigenous activism and culture. In this image Lawney Reyes stands next to one of his sculptures, a cedar bald eagle, in front of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in Seattle's…
ID Number:2000.107.151.33.01
Date:1977