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Woman, Artist, Catalyst: Art from the Permanent Collection
| Place: | Day-Ellis Gallery (Gallery B) |
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| Date From: | 6/22/2024 |
| Date To: | 3/9/2025 |
| Summary: | Help us celebrate 100 years of fine art collecting with selections from the MAC permanent art collection. Focusing on artists from the permanent art collection that identify as women, these locally, nationally, or internationally known artists present a highly varied representation of the quality and focus of leading artists and art movements in the Inland and Pacific Northwest. |
| Description: | 'If you invite me to do something, I will always crack that door and come through it and bring my community with me because that' s what I do. That's how we've survived." Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Women have long been a part of the art world in the Inland Northwest. The Eastern Washington State Historical Society (now known as the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture) acquired its first artwork known to be by a woman artist in 1918-two years after its founding. The painting, Upper Spokane Falls by Minnie Morgan, is included in this exhibition. The museum's Visual Art mission can trace its origins to 1924, when its first female president, Raphaelita Gordon, worked to merge the goals of the Eastern Washington State Historical Society and the Art Association of Spokane under one roof-the Grace Campbell Memorial Museum (now called "Campbell House"). This legacy of women as forces for change in the museum continued with Florence Reed, museum Director from 1947-1961, who reinvigorated the museum's focus on art during her tenure. The artists included in this exhibition, all women, are known for inspiring others to artistic practice as mentors, friends, and teachers. These influences are reflected in the gallery as many of these artists were known to each other, taught one another, or otherwise influenced each other's art practice. This exhibition brings together more than 140 years of work by women artists and presents only a partial glimpse of the many talented artists who have contributed to the field. |
| Related Objects: |
1445 (Painting, "Spokane Falls", 1890)
2531.1 (Painting, "Still Life with White Horse", 1936)
2562.1 (Painting, "Mrs. Garcia", 1968)
2657.1 (Painting, "Schweitzer Basin", 1964)
2772.1 (Painting, "Florence Reed, Self Portrait", c. 1926)
3016.3 (Painting, "Palouse Rhythm", 1939-1941)
3186.31 (Print, "Untitled (Kneeling Figure)", c. 1953)
3230.11 (Print; Woodcut, "Peppers", Unknown)
3476.11 (Etching, "Theory of Haircuts", 9/30/1989)
3537.1 (Painting, "Pink Cyclamen", 1935-1939)
3680.1 (Painting, "Works of HEART", 1992)
3701.7 (Etching, "Coyote and Woman", 1994)
3715.1 (Photograph, "Winter Landscape", March 1989)
3715.2 (Photograph, "Island Wave", August 1990)
3715.4 (Photograph, "Ryder's Light", March 1988)
3948.1 (Painting, "Life While You Wait", 2000)
3951.1 (Vase; Sculpture, "Good Children Vase", 1996)
4038.1 (Painting, "Verse-Maru", 2002)
4078.13 (Painting, "The Conqueror", Mid 20th Century)
4086.1 (Print, "Skin & Bones 1", 2002)
4091.1 (Sculpture, "Lot's Wife", circa 1950 - 1955)
4149.1 (Painting, "Untitled", 1942)
4234.10 (Print, "Formaquatro", 1986)
4234.12 (Sculpture, "Moth", 1980)
4234.21 (Sculpture, "Waiting Lady #238", 2007)
4234.22 (Sculpture, "Waiting Lady #229", 2007)
4234.41 (Sculpture, "Rome Series Portrait #8", 2004)
4267.1 (Sculpture, "Ancestor's Dream", 2004)
4395.3 (Print, "Kinnikinnick", 1997)
4395.32 (Painting, "Similar Intonations in a Change of Place", 1986)
4425.2 (Print; Crayon; Sculpture, "Coyote Now: Bones", 2017)
4467.2 (Paper, "Paying Homage to Fay Jones", 1987)
4473.1 (Basket, "St'us (candy) Cylinder Bag", 2018)
4489.1 (Painting, "Here", circa 2000-2010)
75.2 (Painting, "Upper Spokane Falls", 1882)
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