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Kettle Falls
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| Accession #: | 2585.6 |
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| Title: | Kettle Falls |
| Object Type: | Painting |
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| Physical Description: | Water color on paper. |
| Description: | This watercolor painting by Vanessa Helder, one of a series of twenty-two, captures water tumbling over Kettle Falls on the Columbia River. Kettle Falls was a traditional and very significant fishing site and gathering place for indigenous people of the Columbia Plateau until it was inundated by the Lake Roosevelt reservoir created by the Grand Coulee Dam. Vanessa Helder's twenty-two paintings document the construction of Grand Coulee Dam, completed between 1939 and 1941, and capture both the grand scale and the subtle nuance of one of the largest public works projects in the history of America. These paintings possess an unmistakable vitality that studio partner and friend of Vanessa Helder, Robert O. Engard believes came from studying the strong contrasts of light, shadow, and color present in the semi-arid landscape of eastern Washington. |
| Category: | Art |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Watercolor (Artwork->Painting); Landscape (Artwork->Subject)
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| Geographical Reference: | Kettle Falls (Washington->Stevens County) |
| Dimensions: |
Image Dimensions HxW 17 5/8 x 22 1/8"
Mat Dimensions HxW 24 1/8 x 28 1/8"
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| Materials/Techniques: |
Watercolor (Material)
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| Marks/Inscription: |
"Vanessa Helder," lower right corner, front
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| Credit Line: | Museum Purchase, 1954 |
| Copyright: |
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