Full Description
This volume celebrates an unprecedented series of gifts to the Seattle Art Museum on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. The gifts--nearly 1,000 works from more than forty collections--have significantly enhanced the museum's holdings and reinforced the museum's dedication to artistic excellence. A Community of Collectors includes essays by nine curators who have selected some of the most significant works of art given, pledged, and promised to the museum to be featured. The book offers a sense of the collection's depth and future direction and highlights this gem shinning in the Emerald City.
From seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes to Roy Lichtenstein's Still Life with Silver Pitcher; paintings by Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper and a sculpture of Gwendolyn Knight by Augusta Savage to Asmat war shields from New Guinea; the works considered here touch on the extraordinary richness and variety of the Seattle Art Museum's collections.
The book includes essays by Barbara Brotherton, Michael Darling, Julie Emerson, Chiyo Ishikawa, Patricia Junker, Pam McClusky, Marisa Sanchez, Yukuko Shirahara, and Josh Yiu.
Contents
Donors and Funders of Works of Art Given or Promised in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Foreword / Mimi Gardner Gates
A Community of Collectors / Chiyo Ishikawa
Semblance without Being: New Still Lifes / Chiyo Ishikawa
A Story in Paint / Michael Darling
Building with Cloth Blocks / Pamela McClusky
Completing the Map / Pamela McClusky
Contemporary Korean Art and Cultural Identity / Yukiko Shirahara
More than an Object / Marisa C. Sánchez
Caught on Film / Michael Darling
To Mask or Not to Mask / Pamela McClusky
Repeat, Repeat / Pamela McClusky
The Art of War / Pamela McClusky
Native Art of the Northwest Coast / Barbara Brotherton
Studio Glass: Tradition and Innovation / Michael Darling
The Chinese Connection and the Chinese Collection at the Seattle Art Museum / Josh Yiu
Ukiyo-e: The Aesthetics of Pleasure / Yukiko Shirahara
Tsuji Kako and the Modern Spirit / Yukiko Shirahara
A Restless Heart / Chiyo Ishikawa
British Taste in Colonial Boston / Patricia Junker and Julie Emerson
America in the Artful Age / Patricia Junker
New York Stories / Patricia Junker
The Seattle Art Museum and the Northwest School / Patricia Junker
Chronology of the Seattle Art Museum
Photography Credits
Copyright Notices
