Northwest Art Collection
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. Prints, drawings and paintings by artists Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, Helmi Juvonen, Robert Cranston Lee and others celebrate the Northwest. Many pieces hail from the 1934 Public Works of Art Project.
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Concert stage looking out at crowd, Volunteer Park Be-In, April 30, 1967
Volunteer Park Be-in
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Date: 1967-05
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Aerial view of Skagway, Alaska, ca. 1899
View of Skagway, Alaska looking SW towards the Chilkoot Inlet. The White Pass and Yukon Railway roundhouse can be seen at the lower right and many tents and other homes can be seen in the distance. During the Klondike Gold Rush, the White Pass was one of the routes used by prospectors to travel from Skagway to the Yukon gold fields. In April 1898 the White Pass and Yukon Railroad Company was formed in an effort to establish an easier way through the pass. Construction on the railroad began the following month. Thousands of workers worked around the clock in treacherous conditions to complete the project. The railroad track was completed at White Pass on February 20, 1899 and reached Lake Bennett on July 6, 1899. The final spike on the railroad was placed on July 29, 1900 in Carcross, B.C.
Identifier: spl_ap_00041
Date: 1899?
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Letter from John J. Rowan to Arthur Goodwin congratualting him on the success of the Tacoma Crystal Palace Public Market and describing the arrival of Charles Lindbergh in New York, June 14, 1927
Letter from John J. Rowan to Arthur Goodwin congratulating him on the success of the Tacoma Crystal Palace Public Market. Rowan also relays news of Charles Lindbergh's arrival in New York City, describing the excitement and celebrations. He writes 'Lindbergh arrived here yesterday (13th) the City went wild cheering, rushing mad to get a glimpse of this youngster. I saw him and his Mother, as the procession passed through Central Park. Both of them were as cool as ice while the hordes of people howeled, cheered and jostled.'
Identifier: spl_sh_00118
Date: 1927-06-14
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Illustrations for lecture, Feb 26 1948 (7 of 7)
Mark Tobey was born in Centerville, WI in 1890. Beginning his career as an illustrator, Mark Tobey was a deeply religious man, converting to the universalist Baha'i faith in 1918, which would in some way influence all of his works. After extensive traveling, including a period of time at a Zen monastery in Japan, Tobey taught art and philosophy at Dartington Hall in England until 1937. He then developed his "white writing" technique, painting white cursive writing on dark canvas, a technique which he (and many other Northwest artists) would use extensively until his death. He was one of the four painters LIFE magazine described as "Northwest Mystics". The others were Guy Anderson, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan. He died in 1976 in Basel, Switzerland.
Identifier: spl_art_T552il7
Date: 1948
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 4, no. 3, Jan. 20, 1906
Page 3 includes article featuring architect Albert Walter Spalding with a portrait.
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1906_04_03
Date: 1906-01-20
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Pencil sketches of CCC camps: recreation hall - Captain Gray's orchestra; Lake Cushman, Wash.
Identifier: spl_art_N779Pe04
Date: 1934
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Nookta Abandoned
Parker McAllister, born in 1903 in Massachusetts, was a Seattle Times artist from 1924 to 1965. McAllister started his career as an illustrator at 14 for a Spokane publication; he joined the art staff at the Seattle Times in 1920. His first Sunday magazine cover was a poster-type illustration celebrating the University of Washington crew races in spring 1924. During McAllister's career, he created illustrations depicting “local color” events and situations now routinely handled by photographers. As the technology improved, he expanded his repertoire - he illustrated articles, drew covers for special sections and the weekly Seattle Sunday Times Magazine, and drew diagrams, comics, cartoons, and portraits for the Times’ editorial page. In 1956, an exhibition of his watercolor and oil paintings of Pacific Northwest scenes and historical incidents - including some paintings from the “Discovery of the Pacific Northwest” series - were exhibited at the Washington State Historical Society Museum in Tacoma. He was also a member of the Puget Sound Group of Men Painters. McAllister retired from the Seattle Times in 1965; he passed away in Arizona in 1970.
Identifier: spl_art_291985_17.171
Date: 1956
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