Seattle Art Museum

Overview

Works:	854 works in 1,530 publications in 2 languages and 36,324 library holdings
Genres:	Exhibition catalogs Catalogs History Exhibition, pictorial works Pictorial works Guidebooks Biography Art Criticism, interpretation, etc
Roles:	Editor, Other, his, Publisher, Organizer of meeting, 475
Classifications:	E78.N78, 759.13

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Seattle Art Museum

A thousand cranes : treasures of Japanese art by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
Asiatic art in the Seattle Art Museum : a selection and catalogue by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
The spirit within : Northwest Coast native art from the John H. Hauberg collection by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
African masks and muses : selections of African art in the Seattle Art Museum by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
Selected works by Seattle Art Museum( Book )

A community of collectors : 75th anniversary gifts to the Seattle Art Museum by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
Modernism in the Pacific Northwest : the mythic and the mystical : masterworks from the Seattle Art Museum by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
Chinese jades from the collection of the Seattle Art Museum by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
A Fuller view of China : Chinese art in the Seattle Art Museum by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
Cypriote objects in Washington State by Lawrence J Bliquez( Book )
Handbook; selected works from the permanent collection by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
Bridging cultures : map & guide by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
European paintings and sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress collection by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
SAM collects ContemporaryArtProject by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
East Asian lacquers in the collection of the Seattle Art Museum by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
East African art in the collection of the Seattle Art Museum by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
Seattle Art Museum downtown by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
The Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Seattle Art Museum by Seattle Art Museum( Book )
Peru : kingdoms of the sun and the moon by Canada) Musée des beaux-arts (Montréal( Book )
A Seattle heritage; the Fine arts society by Anne H Calhoun( Book )

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Most widely held works by Seattle Art Museum

Jacob Lawrence, American painter by Ellen Harkins Wheat( Book )

10 editions published between 1986 and 1994 in English and held by 1,205 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Examines the life and art of African-American painter Jacob Lawrence, covering the entire span of his career from the 1930s through the 1980s. Includes over 100 color plates of Lawrence's work

Thomas Moran by Nancy K Anderson( Book )

4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 931 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A survey of Moran's work throughout his career ... [with] nearly one hundred of his works, reproduced in color, along with essays by leading authorities that explore his virtuosity in various fields."--Jacket

Like a one-eyed cat : photographs by Lee Friedlander, 1956-1987 by Lee Friedlander( Book )

5 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 734 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Eastman Johnson : painting America by Teresa A Carbone( Book )

5 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 732 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Providing a comprehensive overview of Johnson's oeuvre within the context of his era, this volume will transform the study of the artist. The two curators and three other distinguished contributors reveal the true scope and diversity of Johnson's American subject matter, notably the thematic originality of his Civil War and Reconstruction imagery."--Jacket

Tobey's 80: a retrospective by Mark Tobey( Book )

10 editions published between 1970 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Native visions : evolution in northwest coast art from the eighteenth through the twentieth century by Steven Clay Brown( Book )

6 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 620 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is a tradition of great antiquity which also remains vital and alive today in the work of the best contemporary Northwest Coast Native artists. Among the extraordinary artworks illustrated in Native Visions are archaeological artifacts and the earliest documented Northwest Coast objects, collected in the eighteenth century, along with numerous pieces by the nineteenth-century artist Charles Edenshaw, masks and totem pole models by Willie Seaweed, and an unusual gold sculpture by Bill Reid

The art of Tibet by Pratapaditya Pal( Book )

3 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 580 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The catalogue of an exhibition ... shown in the Asia House Gallery in the spring of 1969 as an activity of The Asia Society ..."

Art from Africa : long steps never broke a back by Pamela McClusky( Book )

6 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 574 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve "case histories" of objects--or clusters of objects-- in the Seatle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art."

Designing modernity : the arts of reform and persuasion, 1885-1945 : selections from the Wolfsonian by Wendy Kaplan( Book )

1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 572 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Exhibition: L.A. County Museum 7/21-8/22/96, Co-published with Wolfsonian

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; a retrospective exhibition by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner( Book )

8 editions published between 1968 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 568 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lewis and Clark's America : Seattle Art Museum, July 15-September 26, 1976 by Seattle Art Museum( Book )

9 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 561 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Song of the brush : Japanese paintings from the Sansō Collection by Seattle Art Museum( Book )

7 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Japan envisions the West : 16th-19th century Japanese art from Kobe City Museum( Book )

11 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 528 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Introduction : the painters of Japan and the West / Oka Yasumasa -- The reception of maps between Japan and the West / Onoda Kazuyuki -- Two streams of Namban painting / Narusawa Katsushi -- The art scene in and around Nagasaki / Narusawa Katsushi -- The influence of Ransho on Western-style painting / Katsumori Noriko -- The early copperplate prints of Shiba Kōkan and Aōdō Denzen / Tsukahara Akira -- Hollandisme in Japanese craftwork / Oka Yasumasa -- Japan and the West : export porcelain and lacquerware / Christiaan J.A. Jörg -- The opening of Japan and its visual culture / Tsukahara Akira

Impressionism : paintings collected by European museums by Ann Dumas( Book )

4 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 498 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Twentieth-century American art : the Ebsworth collection by Bruce Robertson( Book )

6 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 486 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book, the companion volume to an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Seattle Art Museum, showcases the extraordinary modern American masterpieces assembled by Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth, Saint Louis collectors." "Paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as Patrick Henry Bruce, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Charles Sheeler, and Wayne Thiebaud are included in the collection." "With more than 180 illustrations and an illuminating essay by distinguished art historian Bruce Robertson, this book will be a revelation to anyone who loves twentieth-century American art."--Jacket

The box of daylight : Northwest Coast Indian art by Bill Holm( Book )

5 editions published between 1983 and 1984 in English and held by 486 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Catalogue produced to accompany exhibition held at Seattle Art Museum, Sept. 15, 1983-Jan. 8, 1984. Contains over 200 examples of the art of the Salish, West Coast, Kwakiutl, Bella Coola, Northern Wakashan, Tsimshian, Haida and Tlingit Indians

Inspiring Impressionism : the Impressionists and the art of the past by High Museum of Art( Book )

4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 474 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Inspiring Impressionism" explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists' commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep exploration of the art of the past. Presents Impressionist works by artists including Manet, Monet, Degas, Bazille, Cassatt, and Cezanne alongside those of Raphael, El Greco, Rubens, Velazquez, and others

Into the sunset : photography's image of the American West by Eva Respini( Book )

4 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 467 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

'Into The Sunset' examines how photography has pictured, established and transformed the idea of the American West, from 1850 to the present

Spain in the age of exploration, 1492-1819( Book )

5 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 465 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Porcelain stories : from China to Europe by Julie Emerson( Book )

5 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In a series of intertwined narratives, Porcelain Stories explores porcelain's beginnings in China around A.D. 600, then follows its diverse developments as a new and fashionable commodity within China and throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. The book recounts the ingenious achievements of Chinese porcelain and its worldwide impact through trade, where in the West, it spurred a mania for collecting and an urgent quest seeking the formula for and process of creating porcelain." "Cultural and stylistic interchange between East and West is the other main focus of these stories. They place porcelain objects in the context of their times and cultures, retracing porcelain's technological, aesthetic, and commercial evolution over twelve centuries."--Jacket

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