Slide Show: Examine the Beauty and Bounty of America at Seattle Art Museum
1Image courtesy Howard Giske/Seattle Art Museum. Albert Bierstadt, Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870, oil on canvas, 52.5 × 82 in.2Image courtesy Howard Giske/Seattle Art Museum. Albert Bierstadt, Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870, oil on canvas, 52.5 × 82 in.3Image courtesy Seattle Art Museum. Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1878, […]
Albert Bierstadt, Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870, oil on canvas, 52.5 × 82 in.
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Image courtesy Howard Giske/Seattle Art Museum.
Albert Bierstadt, Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870, oil on canvas, 52.5 × 82 in.
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Image courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1878, oil on canvas, 20 × 30in. From a private collection.
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Image courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1878, oil on canvas, 20 × 30in. From a private collection.
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Image courtesy Paul Macapia/Seattle Art Museum.
Sanford Robinson Gifford, Mount Rainier, Bay of Tacoma – Puget Sound, 1875, oil on canvas, 21 × 40 1/2 in.
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Image courtesy Paul Macapia/Seattle Art Museum.
Sanford Robinson Gifford, Mount Rainier, Bay of Tacoma – Puget Sound, 1875, oil on canvas, 21 × 40 1/2 in.
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Photo courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Carleton E. Watkins, Cape Horn, Columbia River, 1868. Albumen silver print, 19 1/4 × 14 1/2in. On loan from Henry Art Gallery: Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography
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Photo courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Carleton E. Watkins, Cape Horn, Columbia River, 1868. Albumen silver print, 19 1/4 × 14 1/2in. On loan from Henry Art Gallery: Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography
Collection.
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Image courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Strohmeyer and Wyman, Nearly a Mile Straight Down and Only a Step, Yosemite from
Glacier Point, California, 1894 stereograph, albumen silver print. From a private collection.
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Image courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Strohmeyer and Wyman, Nearly a Mile Straight Down and Only a Step, Yosemite from
Glacier Point, California, 1894 stereograph, albumen silver print. From a private collection.
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Image courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Whiting Tennis, Bovine, 2006; lumber, found plywood and found objects and CD; 102 × 168 × 90 in. Gift of Greg Kucera Gallery, Inc.
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Image courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Whiting Tennis, Bovine, 2006; lumber, found plywood and found objects and CD; 102 × 168 × 90 in. Gift of Greg Kucera Gallery, Inc.
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Image courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Michael Brophy, Forest Room, 1999, oil on canvas, 79 × 93in. Mark Tobey Estate Fund.
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Michael Brophy, Forest Room, 1999, oil on canvas, 79 × 93in. Mark Tobey Estate Fund.
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Image courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Cameron Martin, Untitled, 2001, oil on canvas, 72 × 60 in. Gift of the ContemporaryArtProject, Seattle.
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Image courtesy Seattle Art Museum.
Cameron Martin, Untitled, 2001, oil on canvas, 72 × 60 in. Gift of the ContemporaryArtProject, Seattle.
Anyone who’s driven down I-5 on a sunny day and seen Mount Rainier rise above the horizon knows the power of the Pacific Northwest landscape. But a new Seattle Art Museum exhibit examines the continent’s purple mountains majesty through the eyes of awestruck 19th-century artists experiencing the "Great West" for the first time: Sanford Gifford, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Moran among them…
