Traces the life of Lawrence, shows selected works from his long career, and discusses the artist's technique and major themes

Jacob Lawrence: American Painter

Arts & Photography

Hills, Patricia

Wheat, Ellen Harkins

LAWRENCE, Jacob

Seattle Art Museum

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth Through the Twentieth Century

Featuring over two hundred illustrations of Northwest Coast Native American art, examines the chronology shown by changes in design forms and traces style developments from the prehistoric era to the present day.

Brown, Steven C.

Macapia, Paul

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Masks, bowls, bentwood boxes, and weavings from Native artists of the Northwest Coast grace museums around the world. Northwest Coast art has always been a changing and evolving tradition, as is evidenced by the varieties of style visible in artifacts collected from the area over the last two centuries. This richly informative book includes photographs of more than 160 objects from Seattle-area private collections and the Seattle Art Museum, grouped chronologically to illustrate evolutionary changes within the Northwest Coast art tradition. Not a static, rigid, or impersonal tradition, Northwest Coast art is stretched and remolded anew by individuals in each generation. This is a tradition of great antiquity which remain vital and alive today in the work of the best contemporary Northwest Coast Native Artists.
Many pieces by the 19th-century artists Charles Edenshaw, masks and totem pole models by Willie Seaweed, and unusual gold sculpture by Bill Reid are among the extraordinary artworks included in Native Visions.
Steven C. Brown approaches Northwest Coast art as a highly flexible and varied tradition, driven and molded by individual Native artists. In prose that is lively, lucid, and refreshingly free of jargon, he illustrates the means by which the styles and contributions of individual artists have served to evolve the tradition. His application of classic art-historical models of the American art traditions to Northwest Coast art reveals the role played by the inspirations and motivations of these artists in shaping the progressive development of this fascinating art form Paul Macapia's magnificent color photographs include images of rare and previously unpublished examples of Northwest Coast art. The book is based on an exhibition organized by the Seattle Art Museum and traveling to Anchorage, Indianapolis, and Cooperstown, New York.

Publication is coordinated with the December 1997 exhibition "Richard Marquis Objects", held at the Seattle Art Museum as part of "Documents Northwest: The PONCHO series." The text illuminates Marquis' life, artistic ideas and techniques, and at least half of the volume consists of dramatic illustrations (mostly in color) of approximately fifty pieces and groupings along with additional works and the larger sculptures and installations which are not in the retrospective. Concludes with a chronology, exhibition history, and bibliography, but contains no index. Oversize: 10.5x10.5

Richard Marquis Objects

Oldknow, Tina

Marquis, Richard

A Thousand Cranes: Treasures of Japanese Art

The Japanese crane, a most auspicious symbol in Japan, has figured importantly in Japanese culture and art since ancient times, appearing over the centuries in almost every possible medium as a universal sign of goodwill. The title "A Thousand Cranes" is a metaphor for the spiritual grace and dignity that imbue the ninety art objects and cultural relics described in this lavishly illustrated book. 
Based on the Seattle Art Museum's world-renowned collection of Japanese art, this volume will enhance the reader's understanding of the cultural milieu in which these beautiful paintings, ceramics, lacquer ware, and screens were created. The engaging text discusses Japan's prehistoric period, highlights the classical taste of the Heian period, recapitulates the turbulent medieval and dynamic early modern periods, and educidates Buddhism's influence on Japanese art and culture.

Chronicle Books LLC.

Thomas Moran

Describes an exhibit at the National Gallery, the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, and the Seattle Art Museum

Anderson, Nancy K.

Moran, Thomas

Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art

National Gallery Of Art (u.s.)

Natl Gallery of Art

Song of the brush: Japanese paintings from the Sansō Collection

Praise poems: The Katherine White collection

A Thousand Cranes: Treasures Of Japanese Art

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