Electronic Resources for Art Research

Northwest Art

Seattle Art Museum Northwest Art
Selected images from the Seattle Art Museum’s Northwest art collection.

Northwest Masters and Contemporaries
Foster/White Gallery website that includes information on the “mystic” painters. Links for the Northwest masters and their contemporaries can be found in the bottom left corner of the page.

Archives of American Art: Northwest Oral History Project
Access to over 100 interviews with Northwest artists. Information on each artist is provided, along with a link to the transcript of the interview.

Northwest Artists Digital Galleries
From the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, this site highlights the work of emerging and established contemporary artists working in the Pacific Northwest region. The site includes: video and audio interviews, artwork images, and links to artists’ websites.

Founders of the Northwest School

Guy Anderson

Historylink.org—Anderson
Smithsonian—Anderson oral history interview

Kenneth Callahan

Historylink.org—Callahan
Smithsonian—Callahan oral history interview
Works in the Laura Russo Gallery

Morris Graves

HistoryLink.org—Graves
Humboldt Arts Council
Works in the Phillips Collection

Mark Tobey

Guggenheim Museum biography
HistoryLink.org—Tobey