John Steuart Curry’s Midwestern paintings at the Muskegon Museum of Art.
Modern Painters Abroad
John Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites
Museum accessions
This short list of notable acquisitions began with a request to decorative arts curators in major American museums to choose and discuss a favorite recent gift or purchase. Raphaelle Peale’s Still Life with Strawberries and Ostrich Egg Cup has come to the Seattle Art Museum from the estate of Ruth J. Nutt, well known to collectors of American silver for the …
A Sense of Place: American art and the Seattle Art Museum
Today, the Seattle Art Museum is a leading repository of the work of important modernists
Seattle goes boom: The Seattle Art Museum becomes a mecca for American art
The museum has become a globally focused institution whose odds and ends at last cohere
It was never about the food
Drawn to restaurants as settings for his stylish avatars of American anomie, Edward Hopper deliberately avoided giving them anything to eat. Chop Suey by Edward Hopper (1882–1967), 1929. Oil on canvas, 32 by 38 inches. Collection of Barney A. Ebsworth; photograph courtesy of the Seattle Art Museum. The painter Edward Hopper seemed to care a great deal about what he put …