265 results for: Visual Arts
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Unveiling the totem pole at Pioneer Square, Seattle, 1899
This Tlingit totem was carved around 1790 to honor a tribal woman named Chief-of-All-Women and it was placed in the village of Tongass on the Alaska coast. In 1899, a group of leading Seattle businessmen on a goodwill tour of southeastern Alaska stole the totem and brought it back to Pioneer Square. The businessmen were indicted for the theft, but…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.146
Date:1899
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View of downtown and Mount Rainier through Doris Chase's sculpture "Changing Form," Queen Anne, Seattle, 1987
This Josef Scaylea photograph of the Space Needle, downtown, and Mount Rainier is framed by the outlines of artist Doris Chase's sculpture "Changing Form." This 15-feet tall public art work was commissioned for Kerry Park in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood, and installed in 1971.Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.50
Date:1987
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Sculptor Carl Freemanson, Preston, 1960
Sculptor Carl Freemanson (1905-1975) was a Swedish immigrant who moved to the Seattle area in 1950 after living and working in several other US cities. His art was exhibited in museums and galleries across the country, and he ran the Gallery in the Roest in Upper Preston, Washington. This portrait of the artist was taken by photographer Josef Scaylea.Scaylea (1913-2004)…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.212
Date:1960
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Artist Mark Tobey, Seattle, 1953
Painter Mark Tobey moved to Seattle in 1923 when he was hired to start the art department at the Cornish School, now Cornish College of the Arts. He gained national recognition as one of the "Northwest Mystics" along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan and Morris Graves, due to a September 28, 1953 Life magazine article on the Northwest School entitled…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.229
Date:1953
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August Werner, Seattle, March 1973
August Hansen Werner (1893-1980) settled in Seattle in 1931 after an American career as a singer, particularly in the Norwegian American community. Werner had a thirty-year career as a University of Washington School of Music professor and became known as advocate for music and the arts within Scandinavian communities. Additionally, Werner was a visual artist who created the Leif Erikson…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.231
Date:1973
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Sculptor James Washington Jr., Seattle, 1960
James Washington Jr. (1911-2000) was a sculptor and painter who became associated with the Northwest School of artists in Seattle. He grew up in Mississippi and moved to Seattle in 1944 to work for the Navy during World War II. Washington was largely self-taught and he believed this lack of formal training was essential to his artistic success. In the…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.239
Date:1960
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Photographer Josef Scaylea, Seattle, 1974
Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a collection of his photographs and photography equipment to MOHAI in 1993. This portrait of the photographer is part of this collection. Handwritten on verso: Josef Scaylea.
ID Number:Lib1993.20.250
Date:1974
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Cowboy artist Fred Oldfield, Seattle, 1969
Fred Oldfield (1918-2017) was a painter known for his painting of Western "cowboy" scenes. His parents leased land on the Yakama Indian Reservation at the time of his birth, and he often included Native subjects in his paintings of Central and Eastern Washington. He became active in the Washington State Fair and the Fred Oldfield Western Heritage and Art Center…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.264
Date:1969
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Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters Banquet and Auction program, 1940
The Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters (now The Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists) was founded in 1928 and continues to support visual artists through scholarship, education, fellowship, and historic preservation. The oldest professional arts organization in the Pacific Northwest, it was founded by Eustace Ziegler (1881-), who wanted the group to be self-supporting, to award scholarships to deserving…
ID Number:MS.COLL.311.2
Date:1949
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Woman spinning in Swedish Folk Art exhibition, February 1937
In mid-February 1937, various Swedish groups sponsored a Swedish Folk Art Exhibit at Seattle's Frederick and Nelson department store. Exhibits included handicrafts, utensils, furniture and weaving and spinning demonstrations. During the exhibit, Mrs. Ingeborg Soderlund demonstrated how to spin thread on an early 19th century wheel brought to Seattle from Gamtland in northern Sweden.This photo, taken in Seattle in February…
ID Number:PI22473
Date:1937