Exhibition Highlights
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78
June 25?September 7, 2009
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery
February 26?May 25, 2009
Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
January 29?April 26, 2009
S'abadeb?The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists
October 24, 2008?January 11, 2009
Roman Art from the Louvre
February 21?May 11, 2008
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
January 26?April 6, 2008
Scholarly Catalogues
Darling, Michael; Sánchez, Marisa et al. Betty Bowen Award: Thirty Years (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2009).
Yiu, Josh, ed. Writing Modern Chinese Art: Historiographic Explorations (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, in association with University of Washington Press, 2009).
Darling, Michael et al. Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949?1978 (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2009).
Brotherton, Barbara et al. S'abadeb?The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, in association with University of Washington Press, 2008).
Junker, Patricia A. Edward Hopper: Women (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2008).
Ishikawa, Chiyo et al. A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2008).
Honoring Mimi through Art
Since arriving in Seattle in 1994, Mimi Gates has championed the Seattle Art Museum?s permanent collection. Under her leadership, the collection has grown by thousands of works of art; with three sites, more art than ever is available to the public; and all of the museum?s art is preserved for future generations. This list of art donors is current as of June 1, 2009.
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Selected Artworks
Pomponne II de Belličvre, ca. 1640-41
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Mask (Mukyeem)
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Flower vase (cuvette), 1755 - 56
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Dish with design of camellia and flowering plum, 1723 - 35
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Anooralya (Wild Yam Dreaming), 1995
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Nuclear Family, 1999
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The Eagle, 1971
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Italian Room, ca. 1575-1600
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Painting Number 49, Berlin, 1914 - 15
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The Voyage of a Prince, commissioned in 1717
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Some/One, 2001
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Poem to the painting "Sunset on the Jin and Jiao Mountains", 1521
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Keet Shagoon (Killer Whale), 2003
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yiQus (coiled basket), 1900-30
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Wake, 2004
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Neukom Vivarium, design approved 2004; fabrication completed 2006
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Macchia, 1986
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The Head of an African, ca. 1830
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On the Canal, 1893
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Inopportune: Stage One, 2004
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Dr. Silvester Gardiner (1708-1786), probably 1772
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