SAMart: A lecture about a life
A lover of art, objects, far-flung lands, beautiful words, and adventure, Katherine...
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Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: A final note
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SAMblog: An extraordinary collection
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Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: A final note
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Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: A final note
Until this weekend, the Seattle Art Museum was proud to play host to Rembrandt van Rijn; Mary, Countess Howe; Mrs. Musters; and their “friends,”—the figures in the great paintings from Kenwood House, London. We spend quite a lot of time talking about these pictures, referring...
SAMart: A lecture about a life
A lover of art, objects, far-flung lands, beautiful words, and adventure, Katherine C. White amassed one of the world’s premier private collections of African art. Upon her death, the collection of more than 2,000 objects came to the Seattle Art Museum, partially as a gift...
SAMart: Shining, shimmering gold
Gold has been a shimmering presence in art across cultures and time. When the first metals were unearthed by humans around 5000 b.c., gold was valued for its rarity and lustrous color. Ancient Egyptians believed that gold was the skin of the gods, and for...
SAMart: A vivid tornado of paint
Visual Vertigo Indigenous artists from the center of the Australian continent unleashed a wave of art production in the 1970s. Their contribution has been described as a renaissance of the world’s oldest living cultures. A new installation in the museum’s Australian Aboriginal art gallery brings...
SAMart: Unlike any St. Anthony you’ve ever seen
An ingenious interpreter of grand Western portraiture traditions, Kehinde Wiley is one of the leading American artists to emerge in the last decade. This spring, the museum acquired the artist’s most recent work. Since ancient times the portrait has been tied to representations of power....
SAMart: What are decorative arts?
What, exactly, are the decorative arts? The answer might surprise you… Part of the answer would certainly include metalwork, and objects meant for use. This contemporary tea and coffee service, commissioned for the museum by Julie Emerson, The Ruth J. Nutt Curator of Decorative Arts,...
SAMart: Examining, interpreting, analyzing in public
The multidisciplinary field of art conservation involves the examination, interpretation, analysis and treatment of cultural, historic and artistic objects. Professional conservators rely on their knowledge of both the humanities and the sciences in order to understand the creation and production of material culture in the...
SAMart: Small art, big story
Sometimes, collecting small has a big result. In 1919, following his service in WWI, Richard E. Fuller traveled to “the Orient” with his parents, sister, and brother. Their trip took them from Vancouver, BC, to China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Burma, and India. However, the latter...
SAMart: American Abstraction
Early in the 1940s, artists in New York began to develop an expressive, abstract style of painting that was a stark departure from previous ideas, both artistically and historically. Up until World War II, the center of artistic production in the West had been Paris,...
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