Research Catalog

Title

Iridescent light : the emergence of northwest art / Deloris Tarzan Ament ; with photographs by Mary Randlett.

Author

Ament, Deloris Tarzan.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press ; La Conner : Museum of Northwest Art, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Randlett, Mary, 1924-2019
• Randlett, Mary.

Description

xxii, 388 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 27 cm.

Summary

• "In Iridescent Light, the distinguished art critic Deloris Tarzan Ament profiles twenty-one of these artists who lived and worked in Washington State during formative periods in their careers. The author blends discussion of their work with commentary on the obstacles they faced and the influences they brought to bear on one another, showing not only how artistic visions were shaped but also how encouragement from a few farseeing patrons enabled the very survival of these artists. Essays are illustrated by Mary Randlett's photographs, taken over half a century."--Jacket.
• "In and around Seattle in the 1930s and 1940s, there emerged a group of artists who came to be known informally as the Northwest School. With no manifesto and no sense of group identity, they had little in common beyond poverty and the drive to make art in a way that was true to their inner being and their environment. Despite their denial that they constituted a school, their response to Northwest light and to the world around them created a distinctive style that continued to evolve over the next sixty years."

Alternative Title

Emergence of northwest art

Subject

• Art, American > Washington (State) > 20th century
• Artists > Washington (State) > Biography > History and criticism
• Northwest school of artists

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mark Tobey -- Helmi Juvonen -- Kenneth Callahan -- Paul Horiuchi -- Guy Anderson -- Morris Graves -- George Tsutakawa -- James Washington Jr. -- William Cumming -- Clayton James -- Johsel Namkung -- Doris Totten Chase -- Mary Randlett -- John-Franklin Koenig -- Leo Kenney -- Richard Gilkey -- Philip McCracken -- Wesley Wehr -- Neil Meitzler -- Phillip Levine -- Tony Angell.

ISBN

0295981474 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001027892

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library