See what library staff and curators recommend as the best sources of information on a particular artist or area of art. Resources on these lists are available for consultation in library reading rooms.
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness
American Art at SAM Before 1900
American Art Deco and the Seattle Art Museum
The American Landscape's "Quieter Spirit": Early Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church
American Art Masterworks
Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect
Andrew Wyeth: Remembrance
Beauty and Bounty: American Art in an Age of Exploration
Edward Hopper’s Women
George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings
Jeffrey Gibson: Like A Hammer
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages
Modernism
Our National Game
Roman Art from the Louvre
Asian Collections and Exhibitions of SAM
A Black-and-White World: The Art and Lessons of Chinese Rubbings
A Fuller View of China, Japan and Korea
Calligraphic Abstraction
Chiho Aoshima: Rebirth of the World
Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective
City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India
Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats
Deco Japan
Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints
Future Beauty: Thirty Years of Japanese Fashion
Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
Hometown Boy: Liu Xiaodong
Inked – Wan Qingli
Inspired Simplicity: Contemporary Art from Korea
Isamu Noguchi: Sculpture Design
Japan Envisions the West: 16th–19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum
Live Long and Prosper: Auspicious Motifs in Asian Art
Looking West, Finding East
Luminous: The Art of Asia
Many Arrows from Rama's Bow: Paintings of the Ramayana
New Old and New New
Pattern Richness in Modern Japanese Textiles
Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India
Shirin Neshat: Tooba
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art
Transforming Traditions: Japanese and Korean Art since 1800
Where have they been? Two overlooked Chinese female artists
Women's Paintings from the Land of Sita
Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection
Australian Aboriginal and Oceanic Art at SAM
Dream On
Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise
Claire Partington: Taking Tea
Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style
Emblems of Encounter
French Painting from SAM’s Collection
Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Graphic Masters: Dürer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya, Picasso, R. Crumb
Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past
Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art
Michelangelo Public and Private: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti
Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London
Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement
Alden Mason
Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act
A Better Promise: Trenton Doyle Hancock
Brenna Youngblood: Abstracted Realities
Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Enrico David
Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas
Freeing the Figure
Fresh Impressionism
Gaylen Hansen
Geoff McFetridge: In the Mind
James Ensor and Georg Baselitz: Graphic Works
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Kurt
love fear pleasure lust pain glamour death — Andy Warhol Media Works
Martha Rosler: Below the Surface
Modernism in the Pacific Northwest
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Nicolas Provost: Selected Works
Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris
Pop Departures
A Quartet of Suits
Reclaimed: Nature and Place through Contemporary Eyes
A Transparent Legacy: Studio Glass Gifted to SAM from the Collection of Jon and Mary Shirley
SAM Next: Corin Hewitt
SAM Next: Cris Brodahl
SAM Next: Eli Hansen and Oscar Tuazon
SAM Next: Heide Hinrichs
SAM Next: Mika Tajima
Smoke and Mirrors
Tack and Jibe
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949–78
Theaster Gates: The Listening Room
Titus Kaphar: History in the Making
Trimpin: Picnics, Rhythms and Vacations
A Bead Quiz
Black Art I
Order and Border
Our National Game
The View from Here: The Pacific Northwest 1800–1930
Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves
Double Exposure: Edward S. Curtis, Marianne Nicolson, Tracy Rector, Will Wilson
Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection
Northwest Coast Native Art at SAM
Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon
Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse
S’Abadeb – The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists
Song, Story, Speech: Oral Traditions of Puget Sound’s First People
Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical
Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura
Trimpin: Picnics, Rhythms, and Vacations
The View from Here: The Pacific Northwest 1800–1930
Amy Blakemore
Everything under the Sun: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham
Only Skin Deep
SAM History & Collections
SAM in Fiction
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