265 results for: Visual Arts
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Public sculpture with political sign, Seattle, January 27, 1988
Sculptor Richard Beyer's (1925-2012) "People Waiting for the Interurban," one of the most popular works of art in Seattle, was commissioned by the Fremont Arts Council and dedicated in 1978. It is located on the southeast corner of N. 34th Street and Fremont Avenue N., and depicts six people and a dog waiting for the Seattle to Everett Interurban, a…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.07
Date:1988
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Student painting mural in Fremont, May 15, 1991
In this image Susan Spong of Seattle helps paint the Medieval Adventures of Reynard the Fox on the walls of the Fremont Fine Arts Foundry. The art student is part of a crew that is working on the mural designed by Richard Beyer (1925-2012), who also created "People Waiting for the Interurban," one of the most popular works of public…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.08
Date:1991
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Man walking past Tsutakawa sculpture in Chinatown - International District, Seattle June 29, 1988
In this image, an elderly Filipino resident of Seattle's Chinatown - International District neighborhood walks down Maynard Avenue, passing George Tsutakawa's 1979 sculpture, "Heaven, Man and Earth," on South Jackson Street. Mr. Tsutakawa's work demonstrated a “style that blends modernism with philosophical and formal elements of traditional Asian art, a combination that became emblematic of the Northwest school.” Caption information…
ID Number:2000.107.176.19.02
Date:1988
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Alex Williams carving mask at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, April 13, 1978
Here, Nez-Perce carver Alex Williams shapes a piece of alder wood into a totem mask during a workshop at the Daybreak Star Cultural Center in Discovery Park. Indigenous artists taught painting, carving, and drawing at the Center to anyone who was interested, free of charge. Native Americans from throughout the Northwest were welcomed as participating artists at the center. The…
ID Number:2000.107.178.14.02
Date:1978
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Anne Focke reviewing Pike Place Market piggy bank designs, Seattle, August 28, 1986
During the summer of 1985 the Pike Place Market Foundation held a competition in which local artists submitted designs for a piggy-bank sculpture that would collect spare change from Pike Place Market visitors to help support the market's food bank, child-care center, clinic, and senior center.In this image, Anna Focke, a Pike Place Market Foundation board member and one of…
ID Number:2000.107.179.19.03
Date:1986
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Exterior of The Blob, Seattle, October 22, 1986
"The Blob" was the nickname Seattelites gave to the white stucco building created by architect-owner Anthony A. Dadvar to house a restaurant, the Isla del Sol. Initially a square building built in 1946 to house Clyde’s Cleaners, Mr. Dadvar began reworking the exterior in 1984, calling it "a free-form architecture and functional sculpture.'' He planned to create an interior atmosphere…
ID Number:2000.107.185.17.01
Date:1986
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"Soul pole" arriving at Douglass-Truth Branch of Seattle Public Library, April 24, 1973
In this image Raqib Mu'ied (formerly Gregory X), at one time the art department director of the Rotary Boys Club, watches as the 21-foot high "Soul Pole, " a totem pole depicting African-American history given to the Library by members of the club, is erected at the Henry L. Yesler Memorial Branch (now Douglass-Truth Branch) of the Seattle Public Library.…
ID Number:2000.107.190.05.01
Date:1973
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Volunteers from Seattle at Peace Park in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September 7, 1988
The first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city, the official Seattle-Tashkent sister city relationship was established in 1973 but was preceded by ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington and academic institutions in Tashkent. In this image volunteers from Seattle show off the completed Earth Mound, a mosaic of the Earth viewed from the…
ID Number:2000.107.210.18.01
Date:1988
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Jakob Schapiro, Leon Admov, and Matthew Phillips painting tiles, Seattle, February 29, 1988
The first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city, the official Seattle-Tashkent sister city relationship was established in 1973 but was preceded by ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington and academic institutions in Tashkent. In this image taken at Orca-Day Elementary School, artist Jakob Schapiro and architect Leon Admov of Tashkent join fifth-grader Matthew…
ID Number:2000.107.210.18.03
Date:1988
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Mark Tobey and Vera Belsky, Seattle, circa 1930
Painter Mark Tobey (1890-1976) was one of the defining artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style. Tobey also taught free art classes for the Seattle Music and Art Foundation. Here, he examines the work of Vera Belsky, who…
ID Number:2000.107.212.23.01
Date:1930