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Wesley Wehr

Wesley Wehr - Photograph
Accession #: 3580.1
Title: Wesley Wehr
Object Type: Photograph
Participants:
Randlett, Mary (creator)
Wehr, Wesley (depicted)
Physical Description: Black and white photo of Wes Wehr crouched in a rock pile looking towards the camera holding a small lens to his eye.
Description: Six extinct plant and animal species are named after the late Washington resident Wes Wehr. Wehr was a Renaissance man: a composer and gifted musician, an accomplished writer and painter and a collector of agates, crystals and petrified wood. Wehr's miniature landscapes caught the attention of the Northwest art world in the 1960s. As affiliate curator of paleo botany at the University of Washington's Burke Museum, Wehr helped develop North America's most productive source of plant fossils in Republic, Washington, home to a 50-million-year-old lake bed known as Stonerose. In 2003, Wehr won the Paleontological Society's Strimple Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in paleontology by non-professionals.
Category: Art
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:
Photograph (Artwork), Portrait (Artwork->Subject)
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions HxW 5 1/2 x 7 5/8"
Mat Dimensions HxW 11 x 14"
Materials/Techniques:
photograph (Technique)
Marks/Inscription:
Signature: Mary Randlett Location: Date: October 1986
Related Exhibits:
Credit Line: Gift of Mary Randlett, 1991
Copyright:
non-exclusive license to the MAC
Copyright Holder: Mary Randlett, Ollympia
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